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166 WEST COAST OF SUMATRA. [chap. iir.
PANGAH, a small pepper port, is situated 4 or 5 miles' to the south-
east of Ketapang Pasier Village. The adjacent coast is loiv, with a sandy
beach, and there is no mark as a guide to the situation, except a small break
in the trees.
Tenom.—Between Ketapang Pasier and Bubu bay the coast which is
imperfectly known extends south-eastward about 35 miles, and is nearly
straight, it is, however, said to be safe to approach within a moderate
distance ; no shoals are known to exist, except a reef which extends about
one mile off Tenom village, situated 16 miles north-westward of Bubu bay,
though it is said there is one near Waila (Wylah) river not far from the
shore.* The coast is quite low with a sandy beach, and without any
remarkable objects ; near the shore grow arroon trees (similar in appear-
ance to the pine) ; they commence near Ketapang Pasier and extend to
Waila river a distance of 27 miles, the whole extent ^of trees presenting a
regular and uniform appearance.
From Waila river for a distance of 2 miles south-eastward, there is an
opening where there are no high trees, except a conspicuous clump of five
or six very tall ones, standing in the centre of the opening ; there are also
a few cocoa-nut trees, and several houses a short distance south-east of
them, but the latter cannot be seen far. From this break the arroon trees
commence again, and extend in the same close uiiiform order 4 or 5 miles
farther, and terminating close to Tanjong Bubu. This is the best mark to
distinguish this point as there is not one arroon tree between it and
Analabu.t
BUBU BAY.—Tanjong Bubu, the western extreme of Bubu bay, is
a low point, with a small group of tall cocoa-nut trees near it ; they stand
northward of the extremity, and are not visible, except the tops over the
other trees, when the point bears N.N.W.
Bubu bay is about 2 miles broad, one mile deep, and affords anchorage
in 5 fathoms with shelter from winds between West through north to East.
Nearly in the centre of the entrance of the bay there is a reef about 3i
cables iu extent ; and at one mile S.E. of Tanjong Bubu is the northern
extremity of another reef which extends nearly three-quarters of a mile
in a south-easterly direction, and has 12 feet least water.
ANALABU or MALABU is a pepper port situated in a bay,
48 miles south-eastward of Eigas bay. It may be recognised by the grove
of cocoa-nut trees which stand on Analabu point, on the west gide of the
* The crew of the wrecked steamer Nisero landed at Tenom, and were detained as
prisoners br the R^j ah of Achi.
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