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CB^-yi-1 COAST OF BANKA. 307
spur of the range extends in a N.N.W, direction towards the coast, th.e. end
of which, named Bukit Salle, is 442 feet high. i
TANJONG BEDAATJ is a bold headland, Siniks: north'V?ard of
Brand poiilt, the coast between forming' a bay half a mile deep. A con-
spicuous white rock, 45 feet high, lies immediately ofE the point.
PulO' Pemain is a small round' island, 59 feet'high, lying on the
edge of the mud bank, N.W. by N. 2 miles from Tanjong Bedaau*
Tanjong Karra, 1?1 feet high, lies 3 miles north-eastward of Tanjong
Bedaau ; rocks, some above water, extend more than half a mile off
this point.
SLAN BAY.—The coast from Tanjong Bedaau recedes to the eastward,
and between Tanjong Karra and a point about 2 miles eastward of
Nangka islands, is Slan bay, a deep shallow bight, about 8 miles across, in
which are the Kotta and Slan rivers. On the coastline in the depth of
Slan bay is a conspicuous tree 196 feet high.
Slan is the chief town of a pangkal, or district, and is municipally
governed by the administrator of the tin mines ; here, as at all other chief
towns of districts, a small number of Dutch troops are stationed.
Shore Mud-bank.—The edge of the bank (page 305), lies nearly
one mile off Lalarie point, and thence its direction is nearly straight,
passing Casuarina and Brani points at a little less than half a mile. Pulo
Pemain stands on its outer edge, thence the bank assumes somewhat the
form of Slan bay which it fronts, and surrounding Great Nangka islands
trends in a north- easterly direction towards Tanjong Tedong, from which
it extends a little more than one mile.
Northward of T'imbaga rocks the bank may be approached to 8 or 7
fathoms, as far as two miles northward of Pulo Pemain, when vessels may
stand into 7 or 6 fathoms until near Nangka islands, which should not be
approached on the west side nearer than 12 fathoms.
NANGEA ISLANDS, three in number; lie about the middle part
of the straii, IJ to 3 miles distant frorii the shore ofBanka island, and 8 to
9 miles eastward of Third point, on the Sumatra coast. Great !N"angka,
285 feet high, is If miles long north and south, and 1;^ miles broad;
Middle and West Nangka are each about half a mile long, the former
being' 125 feet, and the latter 205 feet high.*
Great Nangka is nearly half a mile within the edge of the mud bank
which extends from the Banka shore. A rock a;wash at low water, lies
3 cables west of the north point of the island.
From Middle Nangka a bank of 2 to 3 fathoms extends S.S.E. 1^ miles j
from West Nangka a similar bank projects to the southward nearly one
* See Admiralty, plap of Nangka islands, soijle, m=i inch, on chart Ko. 2,149.
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