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56 MALACCA STRAIT.—MALAY COAST. [oiiAi'. i.
Pulo Lambu, separated from the north-east end of Pulo Payer by a
channel Imlf a mile wide, is about a quarter of a mile in extent, high, and
foul on its north side to the extent of 2 cables. In the channel, and about
a quarter of a mile from the west end of Pulo Lambu, is Pulo Katcha, a
small rock about 3 feet high. The entrance of Queda river bears about
E. by N. distant 14 miles from Pulo Lambu.
Near the islands of Payer and Lambu there are, with the exceptions
mentioned, soundings of 13 to 16 fathoms within half a mile of the islands.
Soundings of 10 to 14 fathoms will be found until within 5 miles of the
entrance of Queda river.
PULO PfjRA, 01 Silver island, is a peaked, barren, white rock,
394 feet high, entirely devoid of trees, and the resort of numerous sea-
birds ; it lies nearly midway between Diamond point and Queda river.
The island is steep-to, there being 40 or 50 fathoms water near it.
Pulo Pera is often taken as a point of departure, and when the weather
is cloudy during the south-west monsoon it is not unfrequentlj- the first
laud seen after entering Malacca strait. Sailing vessels should then give it
a wide berth, for at that time calms and light airs are likely to prevail in
its neighbourhood, during which vessels have been carried by the current
towards it, and have been obliged to anchor in deep water to prevent being
driven against the steep rock.
Tlie COAST from Queda river extends in a southerly direction 25
miles to the entrance of Marbu river, and continues low and woody till
within 8 or 9 miles ot Marbu river, where Gunoog Jurrai or Queda peak
is situated at a distance of 4 miles from the coast. North-eastward of
Pulo Biinting at 7 miles from the coast is situated Bukit Choreh or
False Elephant hill ; the head of the animal it represents is situated to
the westward and the hump to the eastward. Southward of Marbu river,
as far as the north entrance to Penang, the coast continues low.
Rocks.—At 5^ miles southward of Queda river and at 2^ miles off
shore, there is a rock with a less depth than 6 feet, with 4 fathoms close-
to. Also a rock awash at low water, lies 2^ miles northward of Pulo
Bunting, and 1^ miles from the shore.
A mud-flat skirts the shore between Queda and Marbu rivers, with
depths of 12 to 13 fathoms at from one to 2 miles ofi shore, until abreast
of Pulo Beedan and Marbu river, where the edge of the bank is 4^ miles
off; thence it gradually approaches the shore till abreast the north end of
Pulo Penang, where it is one mile distant.
Bunting islands consist of Pulo Bunting, Pulo Songson, Pulo
Tolo, and Pulo Beedan ; the whole of which are barren. Depths of 10 to
12 fathoms ynll be found 3 miles seaward of them. Pulo Biinting is 610
feet high, l^ miles long, half a mile wide, and separated from the main-