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The China Sea directory - Sabrizain.org

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c"^""- ''T.J COAST OF BANKA. 309<br />

Mundo bay, being joined to the main land by the mud-flat. <strong>The</strong> largest<br />

island is 147 feet high. A small island named Pulu Antu, lies about<br />

1^ miles north-eastward of Meddang islands.<br />

Mundo bay.—From Mundo river the coast trends north-westward<br />

about 8 miles to Tanjong Jurong-patt, 240 feet high, forming Mundo bay,<br />

with a point about the centre of it projecting nearly one mile. <strong>The</strong> shore<br />

of this bay is low, and covered with trees, which, at the entrance of Kotta<br />

Waringin river, are about 120 feet high. <strong>The</strong> land near Tanjong Jurung-<br />

patt becomes more elevated, and continues so as far as the entrance of<br />

Jiring river.<br />

<strong>The</strong> coast from Tanjong Jurung-patt trends in a westerly direction<br />

nearly 3 miles to Tanjong Raya, where it recedes northerly about one mile<br />

to Tempelang river ; thence it takes again a westerly direction past Pulo-<br />

Sumbayang, 175 feet high, for nearly 4 miles to Tanjong Ressam, the-<br />

eastern extreme of Jiring bay.<br />

Jiring bay is the deep bight between Tanjong Ressam and Tanjong<br />

Tadah, a distance of 9 miles. At the head of the bay is Jiring river. <strong>The</strong><br />

shore of the bay is low, with three conspicuous trees ISO feet high in its<br />

north-west part. Tanjong Tadah, 203 feet high, is readily recognised, the<br />

land on both sides being lower and curving into two bays, giving it a<br />

prominent appearance.<br />

Tanjong Anisi.— ^Between Tanjong Tadah and Tanjong Puni,<br />

about 8 miles apart, there are two bays, each about three-quarters of a mile<br />

deep, with Tanjong Anisi having a hummock 256 feet high, midway<br />

between.<br />

Karang Saribu are a cluster of rocks, some above water, extending<br />

2 miles from Tanjong Anisi.<br />

Tanjong Sukal, 2 miles eastward of Tanjong Puni, has a hill 209 feet<br />

high, and a small river on its west side.<br />

Tanjong Puni is low, and the coast line rounds away gradually on<br />

either side. <strong>The</strong>nce to Tanjong Kalian, 1 1 miles west-north-westward,<br />

the coast recedes and forms Muntok bay, about 2 miles deep.<br />

Landmarks.— <strong>The</strong>re are several hills from 100 to 600 feet high on<br />

the part of the coast just described between Tanjong Tedong and Mundo<br />

river; Mundo peak, 512 feet high, eastward of Meddang islands, is the<br />

most convenient for determining the position of a vessel.<br />

At 3 miles N.E. from Tempelang river entrance is Bukit Tempelang,<br />

41 2 feet high, north-westward of which is Bukit Pandin, 585 feet high, a<br />

useful mark when in this part of the strait,<br />

Bukit Assam, a solitary sharp peak, 660 feet high, standing by itself,<br />

10^ miles northward of Tanjong Tadah, is also useful as a landmark.

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