Ids a generally received opinion, that pepper does iiot fuftam any da- 
mage by an inimerfion in Tea water ; a circumftance that attends pcf^ 
haps a fourth part of the whole quantity ihipped from the coaft. The 
fyrf, through which It is carried in an open boat, calied a fatttpan Im* 
chpre, renders fuch accidents unavoidable. Thif boat which carries one 
or two tons, being hauled up on the beach, and there loaded, is llioved 
off. With a few people in her, by a number colle<fted for that purpofe, 
who watch the opportunity of a lull* or temporary iotermiffion of the 
iwelL A i$mbmgon^ or country veffel, built to contain from ten to 
twenty tons, lies at anchor without, to receive the cargoes from the 
iampans* At many places, where the qualbes, or mouths of the rivers^ 
are tolerably practicable, the pepper is fent out at once in the tombon- 
gons, over the bar; but this; owing to the common ihallownefs of the 
water, ana violence of the furfa ^ is attended With coufiderable riik» 
Thus the pepper is conveyed, either to the warehoufes at the Frcfidencyj, 
or to the Europe Ihip lying there to receive it. 
•ampbire* Among the other commodities of the illan4 a confpicuous place 
belongs to the camphire- 
This, diftinguifhed among us, by the epithet of native camphire, and 
called by the Malays, d^pacr Barrocs^ is a produ<ftion for which Sumatra^ 
as well as Borneo, has in all ages been much celebrated; the Arabians 
being, at a very early period, acquainted with its virtues* Chymifts 
have entertained opinions extremely difcordant, in regard both to the 
nature and properties of camphirei and even at this day it feems to be 
bm imperfedly known. I lhall not attempt to decide whether it be a 
refin or not; though the circumiftance of its being foluble in fpirits and 
not in water, would fcem to entitle it to that clafs * nor fball I pretend 
to deterraine wljether its qualitit s, as a medicine, are hot or cold* My 
province is to mention ibch particulars of its hiHory as have come 
^ithm the fcope af my own obfervatioD, leaving to othexs to fpeculatc 
*ipoa it's ufes, 
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