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160 WEST COAST OF SUMATRA. [cuAr. iir.
coral reef projects half a cable from the shore, with 5 or 6 fathoms close
to the edge of the reef, which is in most places distinctly visible.*
AncllOrage.—The best anchorage near Pulo Kas is in 7J fathoms
mud, with the south-east point of the island bearing S.S.W. Anchor
nearer to the island than the main land in order to avoid a sand spit
which projects a short distance from the shore. Here a vessel is
sheltered from all winds, which blow with much violence on this coast,
and in weighing may pass out on either side of the island. With Pulo
Kas bearing East, distant one mile, there is good holding ground in 12
fathoms.
Bound into the anchorage do not round the south-east point of Pulo
Kas at less than half a cable distant, as a reef, on the outer end of which
there is a depth of 3 fathoms, extends nearly that distance. There is
9^ fathoms close to the edge of the reef.
Passing out to the north-west from the anchorage, the least water in mid-
channel is 5^ fathoms, in the narrow part between Patih point and the
north-east point of the island.
Patih. (Patty)
is a small pepper port on the mainland, north-east of
Pulo Kas ; joining the town is a small green hill covered with cocoa nut
trees, which can be seen by a vessel from the southward, at a considerable
distance.
A reef with rocks above water, border the bight in which Patih is situated,
Pulo Kecllil is a small wooded islet about half a mile from Pulo
Kas ; a cluster of rocks above water extend from the island a quarter
of a mile in a westerly direction, with a depth of 7 fathoms close to the
outer rock. On the south side of Pulo Kechil there are depths of 3 or
4 fathoms, coral, deepening towards Pulo Kas.f
A vessel anchoring on the south side of Pulo Kechil should keep nearer
to Pulo Kas than to the rocks, where the bottom is soft, in about
8^ fathoms.
Prom Pulo Kas to Pejabah islands there appears to be no danger.
About 1^ miles S.S.B. from Pulo Kas there is a rocky bank about one
mile in extent, on which the least water is 7 fathoms.
Between Daya and Ketapang Pasier, excepting on the shoals, the bottom
is soft.
PEJABAH ISLANDS form tlie harbour of Telok Kalumpang,
one of the most considerable pepper ports on this* part of the coast. The
islands are small and lie close together about a mile from the main;
the largest is named Pejabah Besar, the smallest and outer one Pejabah
* See Admiralty chart, No. 2,760 ; scale m = 0-1 of an inch.
t Pulo Kechil is apparently the islet on the reef fronting Patih.—Ed.