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««**"• ''•J COAST OF SUMATRA. 303
mud bank is nearly one mile off Nangka point, and lias 5 fathoms water
close-to, so that it must be approached carefully. The point may easily
be distinguished by a round hillock over it 264 feet high, and also the
land receding, forming Toboali bay, the shore of which is low, and fringed
at high water with sandy beaches inside the mud-flat,
2 miles off the land.*
which here extends
Toboali Lama is a hiU situated 1^ miles eastward of Nangka point.
Its peak is of pyramidal form, and rises to an elevation of 512 feet.
Toboali point, bearing N.W. by N., distant 5i miles from Nangka
point, has several white rocks near, and a conspicuous single tree on its
summit ;
it is 213 feet in height, and visible 14 miles off.
Toboali fort, with its red-roofed barracks, stands half a mile south-
east of Toboali point, upon a mound 60 feet in height, at the right point
of entrance of a small river, on the banks of which is the village of
Sabang, situated close to the fort, and containing a mixed population
of about 600 Malays and Chinese. At low water the river dries to a
distance of 3 cables from its mouth. A Dutch Administrator, and a
Cixptam with a small military force garrison the fort. Position of fort,.
lat. 3° C 48" S., long. 106° 27' 22" E.
Mount St. Paul, 5 miles E.N.E. from Toboali point, rises with a
gradual acclivity on its south-eastern shoulder to a peak 990 feet in height,
with two others adjoining, of nearly the same elevation, the western peak
terminating rather abruptly to a lower spur in the direction of Gadong
peak. When westward of Puni island, owing to a projecting spur from
the middle peak, the eastern peak of St, Paul is hidden, and the western
one then appears the highest, and forms, with the north-west brow, a
saddle hill.
Gadong peak is pyramidal, 593 feet high, and lies W. by N. distant
nearly 2^ miles from mount St. Paul ; it is a good landmark.
Owing to the land contiguous to these hills and to Toboali Lama being
low, they appear as islands beyond the distance of 15 miles.
GoSOng point bears N.W. by W. 4 miles from Toboali point, the
land between forming a deep bay with low mangrove trees. A smaQ
stream falls into the sea on the north side of the point.
From Gosong to Labu point the land is more elevated, the highest
part being 250 feet in height, with rocky points and sandy beaches,
between which are numerous rocks close to the shore.
Funi islet, lying midway between Gosong and Labu points, is small,
47 feet in height, and conspicuous from the white granite rocks forming its
base, and other rocks of a similar appearance near it.
» See also plan of Stanton channel, scale, m = 0- 35 of an inch, on Admiralty chart.
No. 2,149,