Higher up on the bill is a forest of immense trees, among which those producing the resin called dammar (Dammara sp.
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.
One had its beautiful head all defiled by pitch from a dammar torch; another had been so long dead that its stomach was turning green.
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.
Dammar is besides a generic Indian name for various other resins, which, however, are little known in western commerce.
A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels.
Gum-dammar solution (page 70) answers the purpose, but colourless collodion is better.
The objects should be dried and impregnated with a gum-dammar solution (p.
For impregnation with the dammar solution the object must first be dried, and the air-pump used in the way described on p.
If much oxidized they should be washed with warm water, dried, and impregnated with a gum-dammar solution or with paraffin wax (pp.
If friable the object should be carefully impregnated with a solution of gum-dammar (p.
Your women will be safe while you hunt dammar gum and resin in the forests; the man who steals a woman against her will shall hang.
McCloud heard at Macassar that there was a settlement of Dyaks at the mouth of the Abbas that wanted to trade in dammar gum and gambir and didn't ask too much balas (tribute money).
The bees descended as before, but we received them with the smoke from our dammar torches, which helped considerably to keep them off.
A supply of dammar torches was soon manufactured, and each carrying a bundle on his back, with one in one hand and a gun in the other, they sallied forth.
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.
It differs from the common sort, or dammar batu, in being soft and whitish, having the consistence and somewhat the appearance of putty.
When a quantity of it has fallen in the same place it appears like a rock, and thence, they say, or more probably from its hardness, it is called dammar batu; by which name it is distinguished from the dammar kruyen.
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.
In the interior country other vegetable oils are employed, and light is supplied by a kind of links made of dammar or resin.
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.
In the farther parts of the country this oil also, owing to the scarcity of coconuts, is dear; and not so much used for burning as that from other vegetables, and the dammar or rosin, which is always at hand.
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.
If allowed to become thick by drying, dammar may be used as luting.
To prepare it, dissolve one-half ounce of Dammar rosin and one-half ounce of gum mastic in three ounces of benzole, and filter.
When the section is mounted in Canada or Dammar balsam, no cement is required, but for all other preservative media the margin of the cover must be covered with cement.
Dammar is now used as a substitute for Canada balsam.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dammar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
