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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
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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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