The damar, pounded and poured into palm-leaf tubes, serves for the torches of the fishermen, and for the lighting of the dusky native houses.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
A small heap of damar-gum torches lay by each, and between them Babalatchi strolled backwards and forwards, stopping often with his face to the river and his head on one side, listening to the sounds that came from the darkness over the water.
"An Outcast of the Islands"
Joseph Conrad
"Wise judges are we of each other," said Claude Melnotte contemptuously to Colonel damar when that officer remarked that he "envied" the pretended Prince of Como, and it would be well for many of us were we to remember the rebuke in forming our judgment of our fellows in connection with their pecuniary position.
"Curiosities of Impecuniosity"
H. G. Somerville