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Updated: June 23, 2025

Of the purely uncultivated jungle products that figure in the exports the principal are gutta-percha, India rubber, and rattans. Only one deposit of cinnabar has so far been discovered, that was in 1867. Antimony was first discovered in Sarawak in 1824, and-for a long time it was from this source that the principal supplies for Europe and America were obtained.

Sir W. H. (William Hood) Treacher - British Borneo: Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo