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A Gf.ANCK AT M1NAHASSA. 
Mela or Turkish corn, is a product winch precedes each new 
planting of paddy, cacao, &c., and serves the population as food, 
particularly when there is a scarcity of rice, after having been 
bruized fine. Ordinarily it costs 32 cents the gantang or measure 
of 40 pounds ; sometimes it is much dearer. The return is more 
than 300 fold. 
Besides the above there is no other cultivated product of any im¬ 
portance for exportation. 
With fruit trees the inhabitants formerly took no trouble ; we may 
consider those species which are found here, as indebted for their ex¬ 
istence to accident, or it may be to the inclination of some individu¬ 
als. The Alfur considers not the profit which the cultivation of such 
trees would permanently bring him, for he loves to see the fruits of 
his hand’s labour come in to him the same year, in order that they 
as speedily again may return. Still the species which are found here 
are numerous, as the nririg-istan, durian, six kinds of liring&s viz., 
b&clring, dammer, malakkd, dodol, kwinie, daning; four kinds of 
jambu or gora, viz., red, white, ayer mawar or rosewater, biji, here 
called gojawas; Idngsd, sweet and pure tomietomie, two kinds of 
bread fruit amo and gomo, pompelmus not very good, sweet lemons, 
China apples, limou choei, limou paddng, with which clothes are 
washed, limou martin, limou jurpuru for washing the head and mak¬ 
ing oil, atis or sirikdyd, bua m&nond, different kind of pisang, airi- 
lris, pindng, coconuts, tamarinds only commencing, a few latjen trees 
also gandaria. 
Those which grow in the woods and are therefore wild, but edible, 
are palowas, mulberry, brambleberry, pinang, rauw, pdkevvk, kelobie, 
mombongen, kdima, Jansip, kendis, kenilow, bosua and papaya. 
Those used in cookery, and which also grow in the jungles, are 
the kanarie, kemirie, or wiauw, klook or pangie, by us called gallnut. 
Timber is in great abundance, some being very well adapted for 
ship and house building.* 
Animals. 
Beasts of prey, such as tigers, bears, &c., are not found here, but 
snakes of different kinds, particularly that called by the inhabitants 
Ular patola (giant or king’s snake) on account of his beautifully va- 
* A list ofl 14 kinds of wood follows, whieh we shall give on another 
occasion. Ed, 
