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 CHAPTER IV. COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION OF ARTICLES OF EXPORTATION. Vegetable Products Rice. — Minor Grains. — Sago. — Vege- table Oils. — Cotton Wool. — Cotton Fabrics. — Indigo.r-^ Black Pepper. — Coffee — Sugar. — Cloves. — Nutmeg and Mace. — Misoy — Ginger, Turmeric, Cayu-puti Oil. — Areca. — Catechu Gambir Tobacco. — Malay Camphor. — Benzoin or FranJcincense. — Lignum Aloes, or Agila Wood. — Drarrons Blood. — Damar or Rosin. — Sandal o Wood. — Sapan Wood. — Ebony. — Incorruptible Wood — Rattans, — Materials of Cordage. — Teak Timber — Animal Products. — Horns and Hides — Ivory. — The Bird of Pa- radise and Argus Pheasant Feathers. — Birds Nests. — - ^ac. — Bees' Wax. — Animal Flesh. — Fisheries. — Dried Fish. — Sharks' Fiiis — Tripang. — Tortoise Shell — Pearls. —Pearl Oysters. Cowrie Shells. Ambergris. — Agar- aaar. — Whale Fishery. Mineral Products.. Tin — ■ Geld, — Iron. — Copper.—^ The Diamond. — Sulph ur. — Sa It. U NDER the common arrangement of — vegetable, — animal, — and mineral products, I shall proceed to give an account of the exports of the Indian islands, including not only such articles as are sent abroad, but such as are exchanged in the course of the commercial intercourse of the natives among them- selves. After the general account rendered of the