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CHAP. X.] PULO LOBAJif.—CBOCODILE SHOAL. 425
the south point. The latter is a rock awash, and lies nearly in the middle o£
the channel between the island and the shore. At 3 cables northward of
the reef fringing the north part of Dua, and 2 cables from the Bentan
shore, is a 3-fathom patch.
WEST POINT is nearly abreast the lighthouse on Pulo Sau, on the
opposite side of the main channel, and distant about 2 miles. The point
is moderately elevated land, presenting a round shelving appearance, and
from it the coast line trends north-eastward, forming the eastern side of
the north entrance of Rhio strait ; the point is bold-to on the south and
west sides, but on the north a reef commences, which abreast Senggera
rocks extends 3 cables off shore.
The Senggera are a ledge of flat rocks, lying 2 cables off shore, at
1^ miles northward from West point. The reef fronting the shore extends
one cable outside them, and at low water, dry heads of rocks will be seen
extending nearly as far as West point.
Malang Yarong is a small islet, covered with trees, lying half a mile
northward of Senggera rocks, on the edge of the reef fronting the shore,
which. here extends 4 cables off.
Pulo Eera, or Skerrie,
is a small island about 80 feet high, lying
2 miles north-eastward of Malang Yarong and close off Tanjong Kalum-
pong.
The reef which fronts the coast from West point passes a quarter
of a mile outside Kera, thence to the eastward, fronting the southern coast
of the large bight between Kera and Tanjong Subong, to the dintance
of three-quarters of a mile.
A Bank, with l^ to 3 fathoms, and one spot having less than one
fathom water, fronts the shore reef north of Malang Yarong ; the 3-fathom
line which marks its edge, trends from that islet in a N.N.E. direction for
2 miles and passes about half a mile outside Pulo Kera, from which it trends
with an irregular outline to Tanjong Subong, passing just outside the Pap
and a group of rocks eastward of it. This bank between Malang Yarong
and Kera is steep-to, and must be avoided.
NetSCher Shoal, the outer part of which lies half a mile outside the
bank just described, is about half a mile in extent, composed of hard sand
and coral, and has a patch of less than one fathom on its north-west edge.
From this shoal spot the west extreme of Pulo Kera bears S. by W. ^ W.
distant 1^ nules, and the extreme of Tanjong Subong N.E. by E. J E.,
4| miles. Close to the western side of this danger are depths of 6 to. 10'
fathoms.
Crocodile Shoal, a small patch of hard sand with 3 fathoms water,
and 4^ to 8 fathoms around it, is the outermost of the dangers on the east
side of Khio strait. It lies N.E. ^ N. distant 2^ miles from Netscher