This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...form of pyrites aud also in combination with alum. In Cotiole (iu Canara) too, he was told, it maybe procured. The greater part of the sulphur, however, exposed for sale in the Madras provinces, was iu Ainslie's time brought from Muscat, from Sumatra, or from the Bauda island Gonang-api. Sulphur is in the Malay balirang, and in Javanese walirang, essentially the same words. This name extends frwi Sumatra up to Celebes, where we find a new one for it, cholok. In one of the language of the Philippines, the Tagala, strangely enough the name is sanyaya, which is, no doubt, a corruption of the Malayan word sandawa, saltpetre. Iu the Bis: iya as well as in the Tagala, the name for gun powder is inalil in K, doubt lessa corruption of the Malay and Javanese name for sulphur. In the Madagascar, the name for it is sulifarn, a corruption of the French soofre, from which it may be safely inferred that the article was unknown to the ustire of this non-volcanic island until brought to their knowledge by Europeans. It hard to say to what use the natives of the Malay Archipelago could have pot sulphur, before the introduction of fire arm. unless to the manufacture of fire-works, known by the native names of mnrchun and raboL The Malay and Philippine Archipelagos, the most extensive volcanic region iu the worii must necessarily contain u vast supply of u&phur, but hitherto it has been very little availed of for economic use. From the Philippines alone it is exported, the export bit to China only, and at the price at Manilla usually of about a Spanish dollar of 4#. 2d. a cwt. Among these islauds, those which nwt abound in it nre Luzon and Leyte, but particularly the last, where the article is of the best quality. A Spanish writer asserts...