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CHAP, in.] BAHNU.—UIGAS HARBOTJB. 163
PulO Rangas, ia a pile of rocks SO or 60 feet high, and covered with
trees. The highest trees on this island are visible on a clear day 17 miles ;
on the north-enst side of the island a coral bank with 3J fathoms water
projects a cable distant, with a depth of 12 fathoms close to its edge.
At a cable distant from the north-west point there is a small rock which
always breaks, elsewhere the island is' bold having 12 or 13 fathoms close
to it. On the south-east side of the island there are two high' rocks, steep-
to all round, and nearly joining the island. A small rock 4 feet high, lies
E. by S. half a mile from Pulo Eangas.
Ancborage.—A vessel may anchor on either side of Pulo Rangas
within a quarter of a mile, in 12 or 13 fathoms, mud. There is also good
anchorage between Pulo Rangas and Rigas point, and between Pulo Rangas
and Pasier Besar, in 11 fathoms, mud and fine sand. See foot note, p. 152.
Rigas Islands.—Ptdo Rusum, the largest of these islands,
is half a mile long north and south, and lies across the entrance to Rigas
bay ;. it is high on the west side, with steep rocky cHfEs and covered with
trees,; on the, east side there is a small space of low land with a number
of cocoa-nut trees. Rusum rock lies three-quarters of a mile S.W. ^ W.
from the centre of Rusum island ; a quarter of a mile N.W. from Rusum
rock is a small rock steep-to, having 2J fathoms water.
Rocks.—Two rocks lying close together, with a least depth of
2 fathoms, and 6 fathoms close to, lies with the east point of Pulo Rusum
bearing N.E. by N. distant 3^ cables ; and a rock, with probably less than
6 feet, which breaks in bad weather, lies with the same point bearing
N, by W. 4 W., distant 2^ caljles.
Pulo Engang lies a cable eastward of the south-east point of
Pulo Rusum, and is a pile of steep rocks covered with trees.
Pulo Samete, lying to the north-east of Pulo Rusum, is low and
has a number of trees on it.
Pulo Pogase consists of two rocks joined, surmounted by a few
bushes or small trees,
Selung peninsula, forming the south part of Rigas bay, is 400 or
5QP feet high with high rocky cliffs; like all the land in the vicinity of
Rigas, excepting that under cultivation, it is covered with trees from
summit to the cliffs. The peninsula in joined to the mainland by a low
sandy isthmus and therefore appears very much like an island.
Tanjong Selung forms the southern point of Rigas bay. Tanjong
Batu Tntung, also rocky and high, is about three-quarters of a mile north-
ward of Selung point ; between these points is formed a bay a third of a
mile deep, with, a sandy beach.
Rigas harbour is formed between Pulo Engang and Piiilo Sam-
ete on the west, and Tanjong Batu Tutung on the east; it is -about half
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