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c a ground with an ordinary kind of varnifi, which 
c they call Nam Rak y and is brought to them from 
4 Siam. 
c This Siam varnifi is collefted in the province of 
* Corfama, and in the kingdom of Cambodia, from 
* the tree Anacardus, called by the inhabitants Tong 
4 or Tree-Rak the fruit of which is called in our 
‘ flops Anacardium, or Luk Rak y and the liquor is 
‘ called Nam Rak. 
4 To colledl this liquor, they bore a liole in the 
i trunk, and put in a tube. By this method they 
4 get as much of it as is fufficient not only to varnif 1 
4 all the utenfils of China, Tonquin, and Japan, but 
* it is even exported in clofe wooden veffels to Bata- 
4 via, and other parts of India.’ 
The original of Koempfer, p. 794. fpeaking of the 
true Japan varnifi, is as follows : “ Troftat non fin- 
“ cera modo, fed et colorata, vel cinnabari nativa- 
44 Sinenfi, vel terra rubra (quam Batavi antea, nunc 
“ Sinenfes advehunt) vel atramenti popularis ma- 
“ teria.” 
Which I apprehend may be read thus in English : 
4 This varnifi is not only fold quite pure, but 
4 likewife coloured, and that with Chinefe native 
4 cinnabar, and a kind of red earth, which the 
4 Dutch formerly, but now the Chinefe, bring them ; 
4 and alfo with the materials that they make their 
4 common (or Japan) ink of.’ 
Mr. Miller tranfates it thus ( See p. 164. vol. xlix. 
Phil. TranfaB.) : 4 This varnifi is ufed without mix- 
4 ture to fain black : but the Chinefe mix native 
4 cinnabar, or a red kind of earth, with it, to make 
4 a different colour.’ 
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