Crossword-Solution: BIRDSNESTS 10 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The subjoined accounts furnish the most detailed information known respecting the collection and trade in these birdsnests.

The following description of the birdsnests’ rocks, in the district of Karang Bollong, on the southerly sea-coast of Java, is given in the first volume of the _Journal of the Indian Archipelago_, published at Singapore.

Moor, in his notices of the _Indian Archipelago_, published at Singapore some years ago, states, that ‘one of the principal and most valuable articles of exportation is the edible birdsnests, white and black.

The Sultan, however, seldom gets any account of what is sent to Browe, Seboo, and the Sooloo Islands, the quality of which is far superior to any sent to European ports.’ The exports of birdsnests from Java, between 1823 and 1832, averaged about 250 piculs a year; in 1832, 322 piculs; but of late years the exports have not averaged half that amount; and in 1853 and 1854 there were only about 35 or 40 piculs shipped.

After the use of frogs in France, and birdsnests in China, I think these eggs may be considered a delicacy, and I found that they are not rejected from the tables of the fashionable inhabitants of the capital.’ The more recent observations of Messrs.