pepper-growing

Updated: May 14, 2025

These rivers have since passed under the Government of the British North Borneo Company, and in Bundu, owing partly to the security now afforded to life and property and partly to the very high price which pepper at present realizes on account of the Dutch blockade of Achin Achin having been of late years the principal pepper-growing country the natives are again turning their attention to this article.

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