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Not so the algum-tree, at least if interpreters are right in taking algum or almug for sandalwood.

In the Second of Chronicles, chapter 9, verses 10 and 11, we find the following: “And the servants also of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones, and the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the lord and to the king’s palace, and harps and psalteries for the singers, and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.”

No Jewish lexicon tells us of almug or algum trees; no Hebrew writer undertakes to describe them.

Here we have Solomon’s algum tree with the name scarcely modified.

His galley was built of burnished teak, the lining of its cabin was of sandalwood,—algum wood your Koran calls it,—and the turret in its stern was covered with plates of solid gold.