In the Andamans and Nicobars: The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin"Kloss, C. Boden (Cecil Boden)
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In the Andamans and Nicobars: The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin"
Kloss, C. Boden (Cecil Boden)
Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) -- Description and travel; Natural history -- India -- Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Bombway } Careya arborea }
Gangaw } Mesua ferrea }
Mohwa } Mimusops littoralis } Probably useful for
Pyimma } Lagerstroemia hypoleuca } paving-blocks.
Lakuch } Artocarpus Lakucha }
Gurjan } Dipterocarpus sp. }
Thingan } Hopea odorata }
Gurjan } Dipterocarpus sp. }
Didu } Bombax insigne } For tea-boxes,
Toung-peingne } Artocarpus Chaplasha } indigo boxes, and
Thitmin } Podocarpus bracteata } packing-cases.
And numerous } Barringtonia sp. }
other woods
Padouk } Pterocarpus Indicus } For gun-carriages and
Pyimma } Lagerstroemia hypoleuca } carriage work.
Thingan } Hopea odorata }
Padouk } Pterocarpus Indicus } For shafts.
Gangaw } Mesua ferrea }
Lakuch } Artocarpus Lakucha } Probably useful
Thitmin } Podocarpus bracteata } for oars.
Satin wood } Murraya exotica } In place of boxwood.
Mangrove } sp. } For firewood.
The Madras and Bombay Government gun-carriage factories are supplied
with Andamanese timber, which, so far, is understood to have given them
satisfaction. Such timber has been sent to Roorkee for the Military
Gymnasium, as being the best suited in India for its purposes. The
Indian Marine Department also takes it regularly. Andamanese timber has
also been supplied to Woolwich Arsenal. These facts show that Andamanese
timber is of value to such establishments as gun-carriage factories,
arsenals, gymnasia, and ship-building yards.
For various reasons, most of the Andamanese timbers will probably be
found to be best marketable in a converted form. It is believed that
such converted timbers will be found useful for six large trades at
least, viz., paving wood-blocks, gun-stocks, pianoforte manufacture,
furniture, organ building--for which _Padouk_ is pre-eminently
suitable--and electric light and telephone fittings. If _Gurjan_ should
turn out, as is believed to be probable, to be of use for paving
wood-blocks, then the supply would be very large.
Two forms of converted timbers may be specially noticed as probably
marketable in large quantities, viz., railway sleepers, and tea shooks.
It is believed that there are several timbers which would stand the
strain of railway traffic; and as regards tea shooks, _Gurjan_ is used
for this purpose in some mills in Assam, and of this particular wood
there is an unlimited supply all over the Andamans, which could probably
be delivered locally at a price which would enable it to compete well in
Indian markets with other timbers used for tea-boxes.
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