Higher up on the bill is a forest of immense trees, among which those producing the resin called dammar (Dammara sp.) are abundant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

The dammar is a kind of turpentine or resin from a species of pine, and used for the same purposes to which that and pitch are applied.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference

The ebony, the dammar, the tree that yields the finest dragon's blood in the world, all abound here.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference

Galela men had established themselves as collectors of gum-dammar, with which they made torches for the supply of the Ternate market.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

Other gums, as mastic, dammar, sandarac, and even resin are sometimes mixed with copal to cheapen the product or to cause more rapid drying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference

As the cementing substance for the nitrate of soda, a mixture of gum dammar with monobromonaphthalene was used, which afforded an index of refraction of 1.58.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference

It exports tin in large quantities, gutta-percha collected in the interior by the aborigines, coffee, which promises to become an important production, buffalo hides, gum dammar, and gharroo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference

First coat the glass with dammar varnish, or else with Canada balsam, mixed with an equal volume of oil of turpentine, and let it dry until it is very sticky, which takes half a day or more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

We now commenced our return homewards, laden with our honey cones and a supply of dammar.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Eastern Seas] Reference

The Malay looked curiously round the room, and held his dammar-torch on high, as he peered here and there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middy and Ensign] Reference

In the interior country other vegetable oils are employed, and light is supplied by a kind of links made of dammar or resin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference

A superior kind is made by filling with dammar a young bamboo, about a cubit long, well dried, and having the outer skin taken off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference

The torches were growing dim, and if not soon replenished with fresh dammar, they would both be out; but no one stirred to touch them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middy and Ensign] Reference

The pen they use is a twig or the fibre of a leaf, and their ink is made of the soot of dammar mixed with the juice of the sugar-cane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference

Even the poorest house in the native quarter has a dammar light flaring on a pedestal of the stem of the sago-palm stripped of its sheath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference

The seams have been filled in with dammar; and though no paint has been used, she appears to great advantage with the natural colour of the wood.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Eastern Seas] Reference

Having now placed the two parts in close contact they bind them together with rattans, and cover the whole with a thick coating of dammar or resin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference

Here also grew the fan-leafed palm, whose small, nearly entire leaves are used to make the dammar torches, and to form the water-buckets in universal use.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

Ali lay watching he suddenly became aware that the dammar-torches, lit by each watching party in turn, were beginning to pale, and that it was once more day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middy and Ensign] Reference

Sometimes the dammar accumulates in large masses of ten or twenty pounds weight, either attached to the trunk, or found buried in the ground at the foot of the trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference

She was holding a dammar torch at arm’s-length aloft, and in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Jim] Reference

She was holding a dammar torch at arm's-length aloft, and in a persistent, urgent monotone she was repeating, "Get up!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Jim] Reference

NAWAPA är ett system av dammar och kanaler mellan.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Obtain specimens of gutta-percha, resin, pitch, turpentine, shellac, copal, dammar, and creosote for study and inspection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges] Reference

The woods about Pontiana for carpentry and joinery, are kayu bulean, chena, mintangore, laban, ebony, iron-wood, dammar, and dammar laut.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference