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OHAP.VI.J COAST OF SUMATRA.. 301
soutji-westwajjd, bounding the entrance of Snngi Asing on Us north-west
aide, to Tanjong Kampefa, from which it projects not quite a mile.
The soundings ofE Batakarang point are regular, and the point may be
passed in from 6 to 4^ fathoms water.
EASTERN SHORE OF BANKA STRAIT.
The south coast, which separates Banka and Gaspar straits, is treated
of here, as being intimately connected with the former, for Mr. Stanton
observes that at the entrance of Banka strait, in the south-east monsoon,
the ebb tide during the night at springs will be found setting to the south-
eastward ; consequently many vessels, although steering a course for the
strait, get set between Dapur islands and Baginda point.*
The coast between Tanjong Baginda and Dapur islands, in extent about
14 miles E. f N. and W. | S., is generally low, and covered with trees,
it presents, however, some points sloping down from hills of moderate
elevation. It is fronted with a mud-bank extending in places nearly
2 miles from, the shore, upon which are many rocks above, and many others
below water.
BAGINDA POINT, the south-eastern extreme of Banka, slopes
gradually in a south-easterly direction from a hill 331 feet high. Two
miles inside the point, in a N.W. by W. ^ W. direction, is Baginda peak,
521 feet high.f
Duya Point, situated 2 miles south-westward of Baginda point,
is separated from it by a bay about half a mile deep. At one mile N.N.W.
from this point is a hill 432 feet high, from which the land slopes down to
the coast.
Eeyang point, 2 miles westward of Duya point, is separated by
a sandy bay about half a mile deep.
Bantil point.—The bay between Keyang point and Bantil point, 3
miles to the westward, seems to be full of rocks.
Tanah-RobU point, 3^ miles westward of Bantil point, has
several rocks, above and below water, projecting nearly a mile off.
Banks.—Eocks, some of which are above water, extend southward of
Duya point and for more than a mile along the coast westward, to the
distance of half a mile. The east end of a sand-bank lies about 1| miles
S.S.E. 4 E. from Duya point, and extends westward until it meets the
mud-bank which fronts the coast to the distance of one mile, as far as
Tanah-robu point, where it terminates ; on this sand-bank are several
rocky patches.
* See Admiralty chart :—^Banka strait, No. 2,597 ; scale, m = 0'25 of au inch,
f For description of coast eastward of Baginda point, see p. 334.