Java exports, for the consumption and use of the other islands of the Archipelago, including the Malayan ports on the peninsula, rice, a variety of vetches, salt, oil, tobacco, timber, Java cloths, brass ware, and a variety of minor articles, the produce of her agriculture and manufactures, besides occasionally, as the market admits, a considerable quantity of European, Indian, and Chinese goods. Almost the only articles for which Java is at present dependent on its neighbours are _gúmbir_, imported from Lingen (_Ling'ga_) and Rhio, where it is produced to the annual amount of from twenty to thirty thousand _píkuls_,--and _pámur_, the metal used for damasking the Javan _krís_, of which a small quantity is imported from _Biliton_ and _Célebes_, where alone it is found. The following articles, the exclusive produce of the Eastern Islands, are collected at its principal ports, for re-exportation to India, China, and Europe: tin, from _Bánka_; gold-dust, diamonds, camphor, benjamin and other drugs, edible birds'-nests, _bich de mar_, rattans, bees'-wax, tortoise-shell, and dyeing woods, from Borneo and Sumatra; sandal and other fine woods, nutmegs, cloves and mace, coarse, wild and damaged spices, _káyu-púti_ and other pungent oils, from the Moluccas; horses and sapan wood, from _Sumbáwa_; _Búgis_ cloths, and many collections for the Chinese market, from Célebes. Cloths are also sometimes imported from _Báli_, and pepper is collected at _Bánjermásin_, on Borneo, and from several of the Malayan states. The tin brought to Java is almost exclusively from the mines of _Bánka_. This metal is also exported from several of the other islands, and from the peninsula of Malacca, whence these countries have been considered the _Temala_ of Ptolemy, _timáh_ being the Malayan word for tin; but the quantity obtained from all other sources falls far short of what is procured on _Bánka_, which exports to the annual amount of thirty thousand _píkuls_, or nearly forty thousand cwt. of this metal. The mines on _Bánka_ are worked by Chinese, who deliver the metal into the government stores in slabs, at the rate of about eight Spanish dollars the _píkul_, of one hundred and thirty-three pounds and a quarter.