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Produaions.
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Tae produ&ions of the country are, camphire, gum benjamin, caffia,
cotton and indigo. The domeftic animals are horfes, cows, buffaloes,
goats, hogs and dogs of the cur kind; with the wild ones that are common
to all parts of Sumatra. There is no gold found in the northern
parts, nor any brought down to Tappanooky. Rice is extremely plenty
in fome of thofe diftricts which lie near the fea; and as fcarce in others.
At Natal this grain is faid to yield a produce of feventy or eighty for one;
and at a place called Soofoo, fo much as an hundred. No benjamin is
produced to the northward of Sinkell, nor to the fouthward of Batangtara,
near the bay. The growth of the camphire tree is alfo much
limited in point of extent; none being found fouth of the equinoctial.
£g C found"' ld * High U P on the river called Battoo-bara; which, having its fource
in the Batta country, empties itfelf into the ftraits of Malacca, and is
always fpoken of as the moft navigable in that part of the ifland; is
found a large brick building, concerning the eredtion of which no tradition
is preferved among the people. It is defcribed as a fquare, or
feveral fquares, and at one corner is an extremely high pillar, fuppofed
by them to have been defigned for carrying a flag. Images, or reliefs,
of human figures, are carved in the walls, which they conceive to be
Chinefe Jojfes or idols. The bricks, of which fome were brought to
Tappanooly, are of a fmaller fize than thofe ufed by the Englifh.
Perfons of the The Battas are in their perfons rather below the ftature of the Malay t
and their complexions are fairer; which may perhaps be owing to their
diftance from the feaa an element they do not at all frequent.
in order to return, and flopped that night at a campong called Coto Moran, and the next evening
reached Sa-majjfam; from whence we came by a different road from what we had travelled before,
to Sa-pefang; where we got fampans and paffed down the Batang Tara river, to the fea. July
ziA. We returned to Pooh Punchong." It ihould be obferved, that owing to fome difficulties
made by the country people, and the diflatisfa&ory conduct of the principal perfbn who accompanied
them as a guide, the object of Mr. Miller's journey was fruftrated, and they did not even
fee the caflia trees. During the courfe of the Journey they were every where treated with great
hoipitality and refpeft.
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