Crossword-Solution: DAMMAR 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Many tried to follow him and find that land of plenty for gutta-percha and rattans, pearl shells and birds' nests, wax and gum-dammar, but the little _Flash_ could outsail every craft in those seas.

Coming out to sea we turned northwards, and in about two hours' sail reached a few huts, called Langundi, where some Galela men had established themselves as collectors of gum-dammar, with which they made torches for the supply of the Ternate market.

Higher up on the bill is a forest of immense trees, among which those producing the resin called dammar (Dammara sp.) are abundant.

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.

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.