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174 WEST COAST OP STJMATEA. [chap. iii.
Tunangku, - and Batu. There are many smair islets with deep 'water
channels interspersed with rocks, between them.
Pule Baugkaru, the outer and S.W. islet; has a shoal lying nearly
one mile off its west side. Chameleon bay, on its south-east side affords
shelter from N;W. winds.
Between Pulo Bangkaru, and Pulo Topak 24 miles to the westward, the
channel is considered ' to be free from danger; but it- is fecorniflended
to keep to the Bangkaru side.
The channel between Pulo Bangkaru and Tunangku is nearly 5 miles
wide with deep Water, there being no danger apparently beyond half a mile
from either islets.
Plllo Tunaugku, the largest islet, is nearly 20 miles in length, with
a conspicuous sugar loaf peak named Gunong Trusa on its riorthern end.
Close westward of this peak is a bay which affoMs shelter from southerly
winds in from 6 to 13 fathoms, the entrance to which is between Pulo
Mandong Katti, and Gunong Batio Lanteh, the West point of the bay.
Numerous islets extend about 6 miles north-eastward of the north point of
Pulo Tunangku, between which and Pulo Ujong Batu is a deep navigable
channel about 3 miles in width.
Pulo TJjong Batu lies nearly|9 miles north-eastward of Tunangku.
It is about 5 miles in length, with islets extending about the same distance
southward, between which and Great Pulo Balambak there is the deep
channel before referred to.
Eastward of' the reefs extending about 2 miles nbrth-eastward of Batu,
is' a channel about 4 miles wide, which is one of the best passages between
the Banjaks, though there are some detached shoals in it.'
Jawi Jawi or Passage Island, the north-eastward of theBanjak
islands, lies 10 miles eastward of Pulo Ujong Batu, and 7 miles westward
of Tanjong Palikala on the main. It is low -and Sandy with a few shrubs,
but there is one large banian tree which may be seen from ia distance of
about 12 miles. Passage island is situated on the east end of a reef which
is 5 miles long in an east and west direction, and 3 miles broad.*
A Shoal having a depth of 4^ fathoms, reported by H.N.M.S.
Surabaya, lies with Ja'wi Jawi bearing S. by W. \ W. distant about
If miles.
DIRECTIONS.—Vessels from the northward bound to any of the
ports north of the equator should proceed by one of the passages between
Banyak islands and the main. The channel between Passage island and
the coast of Sumatra is rendered intricate by dangerous rocky shoals
* See Admiralty plan of Banjakristands and "adjacent coast, No. fi.S.T; scale, jb = 0"28
of an inch.
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