Gunong Chinchang, make up a picture not to be equalled any- where in the Straits of Malacca.
The islets in the strait are called Pulau Kědra, and the fol- lowing are some of the names of the numerous islands to the West of Pulau Dayang Bunting:—Pulau Chupak (very small), Pulau Gubang, Pulau Jong, Telam Banton, Pulau Singha, and Pulau Bras Basah.
To the North nearer to the shores of the main island, are Pulau Lalang, Pulau Ular, and Pulau Hantu.
Steaming out of the strait and leaving Pulau Hantu on the right, we sighted Pulau Adang in the distance, far out to sea, bearing about N. N. W. This island is famous for its turtle.
Then, passing between Pulau Těpur and Tanjong Sawah (the S. W. point of the main island), we steamed on past two islands—Pulau Rěbah—and headed for Tanjong Bongkok Pennyú, called on the chart "The Dolphin's Nose." This is a bold headland, the end of the Gunong Chinchang range, with a hump on the top of it. There are fishing stakes in the straits between the islands above-mentioned and Pulau Lang- kawi, and small settlements on the coast of the latter. Round the fishing stakes, flocks of gulls (chĕnchamar) were wheeling. Nearly opposite Pulau Rěbah is Tanjong Padikik.
Entering the bay on the South side of Tanjong Bongkok Pennyú, we dropped anchor in deep water not far from shore. This place is called by the Malays Burau, which is a corrup- tion of two Siamese words bor ran, "old well"; a walk of about a mile and a half through the jungle, ending with a steep climb, brings one out on a face of precipitous rock, through which a mountain torrent has worn itself a channel. Here we see the "well," or scries of wells (the Malays say there are seven and call the place tělaga tujoh), from which the Siamese name originated.
No longer in the bed of the stream, which has probably shifted, as the rock has been worn down under the attrition of centu- ries, there are here and there deep circular holes which seem to have been cut out with sufficient accuracy to excuse the natives of these parts for supposing that they are the work of mankind. But the stream close by has doubtless been the
