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The hardwood floors, wooden ceilings and brick and stone interior walls were all hidden behind coverings and old paint.
Typically, he conjures a Lutheran or Presbyterian setting for his novels, and his enthusiasm for those particular creeds induces him, at moments of crisis in one plot after another, to plunk his guilty male culprit of a hero (Updike's heroes are almost always guilty males) down on a hardwood pew and to subject him to a vigorous Sunday sermon on biblical themes.
Failing a real hardwood blowpipe, you can buy the handsome quiver of stout rattan-bound bamboo with the poison darts (minus the poison), both authentic, and a shorter pipe of bamboo that does a perfectly serviceable job of blowing darts into your cork dartboard at home.
Peat swamp, found in the southern half of the peninsula and in Sarawak on Borneo, is less fertile but rich in hardwood timber.
Then came tin mining and rubber plantations, and, more recently, palm oil, hardwood timber, and offshore petroleum and gas.