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CHAP. III.] PULO RAJAH.—PULO KAS. 169
A vessel may also anchor south-eastward of Pulo Eajah quite as near
the town, and sheltered from north-west winds.
A vessel from the southward should not round Pulo Maneh nearer
than 4 cables, and when Telok Kruet point is seen, or when Pulo Maneh
bears E. by S., a direct course may be steered for the anchorage.
Th.e dLannel between Pulo Rajah and the mainland is about 3^ cables
wide, but is narrowed to one cable in breadth,, by three or four small
rocks, about the size of a haycock, with 2 to 6 feet water on them, lying
nearly in mid-channel in the north-west part of the passage. Close to
the rocks, on the side nearest to Pulo Bajah, the soundings are 7 fathoms,
deepening to 8 and 9 fathoms. Within half a cable of the sandy point
which forms the north-east point of the island the water shoals suddenly
to 3 and 2 fathoms. A vessel parsing through this passage should keep
about one-fourth the width of the passage from the island ; and at this
distance there will probably not be less than 7 fathoms. Between the
rocks and a point of sand, which extends 50 fathoms from the main,
there are 4| fathoms coral. A ridge of coral with 4 J and 5 fathoms,
extends from the rock in a S.S.E. direction parallel to the main, nearly
through the passage.
BABA NIPA POINT (Tanjong Glass) is the first point to the
south-east of Pulo Bajah, and may be known by its ash-coloured cliffs, and
by a small rock separated a few feet from the point.
Baba Nipa point is fringed by a reef which extends about one-third
of a mile, with 10 fathoms close to.
Village.—The village of Baba Nipa, one of the pepper ports, is about
half a mile inside the point of that name ; several of the houses can be
seen, also a cluster of cocoa-nut trees. There is a river close to the village
with good water ; between the river and the point coral reefs extend a
quarter of a mile from the shore.
Anchorage
in lO fathoms, mud, may be obtained with Baba Nipa
point bearing S.S.E. distant three-quarters of a mile. The bottom is of
hard sand as Pulo Eajah is approached.
Between Baba point and Pulo Kas at a moderate distance from the shore
there appears to be no danger ; do not shoal less than 10 fathoms.
PULO EAS, distant 6 miles south-eastward of Pulo Rajah, is considerably
elevated, and like all the islands between Pulo Rajah and Keta-
pang Pasier, is a mass of black rocks having the appearance of iron ore,
south-west side of the island is steep to,
and covered with trees. > The
there being ] fathoms, mud, close to the rocks ; on the north-east side a