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The chief products are tin, of wliich this territory furnishes
              more than half of the world's  total output,  rubber,  rice,
                  cocoanuts, pineapples, cinchona bark, pepper, spices,
         Products  tea,  coffee,  sugar,  indigo,  tobacco,  rattan,  tapioca,
                  sandalwood, and teak.
               In this island territory there are about forty million peo-
              ple, of whom more than half live in the island of Java.  The
              majority of these are members of the Malay famil^^  " They




























                            DYAK HEAD HUNTER


             have a light brown complexion, straight black hair, and are
             three or four inches shorter than the average occidental.
             The sexes do not differ much in appearance.  They are slow
              and  circumlocutory  of  speech,  courteous and  dignified,
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