AND THE MALAY STATES 
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to the walls, while huge lanterns hung from the ceiling. In the rear 
rooms were mail}- brick tanks about 20X20 feet and five feet high, covered 
with cement, in which the gutta was stored under water. The floor was 
tiled and piled high with blocks and rolls of gutta. which, to keep 
off oxidization, was frequently wet down by turning a stream of water 
on it by means of a hose. Although they were equipped with reboiling 
tanks, none were then in use, so we were taken to a nearby warehouse 
where the work was in progress. 
The Gutta-percha as the reboilers receive it comes in large crumbly 
cakes. These cakes are put in a tank and boiled in hot water, after 
NEW MOHAMMEDAN MOSQUE. JOHORE — VIEW FROM SEASIDE. 
which the mass is run through a large mangle turned by two coolies 
and fed by a third. It is next dumped into a tank of cold water, allowed 
to cool, and then stacked up to dry out. After drying it is cut into 
shreds by coolies who use great cleavers for the purpose, and it is 
again boiled, and sheeted, and cooled as before. The same process is 
gone through with a third time, but when the sheets come from the 
mangle this time the gutta is folded into neat rectangular blocks and is 
ready for market. The boiling, sheeting, and cooling, toughens the 
