kapis

Updated: May 9, 2025

There is likewise an extensive bed of the Ceylon oyster, called by the Malays kapis; the principal banks of the latter are found in Maludu Bay. The Sulo pearls have, from time immemorial, been the most celebrated, and praised as the most valuable of any in the known world.

Rajah of Sarawak James - The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido: For the Suppression of Piracy