And it has the pleasant feel of amber, too.

Some of the light-colored samples were a tolerably fair counterfeit of uncut South African diamonds, they were so perfectly smooth and polished and transparent.

It is manufactured into varnish; a varnish which answers for copal varnish and is cheaper.
The gum is dug up out of the ground; it has been there for ages.

It is the sap of the Kauri tree.

Dr.Campbell of Auckland told me he sent a cargo of it to England fifty years ago, but nothing came of the venture.
Nobody knew what to do with it; so it was sold at 15 a ton, to light fires with.
November 26--3 P.M., sailed.