ABSTRACT

FURTHER on towards China (to the north, Spanish version) from this Island of Solor there is another island also well furnished with victuals, inhabited by Heathen with a Heathen king and a language of its own, where is found. great store of edible Camphor,1 greatly esteemed by the Indians and worth its weight in silver. They carry it. in powder in cane tubes to Narsyngua, Malabar and Daquem. This island is called Borneo.l