The romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir - Khamkoo

CHRISTMAS IN BURMA 103
1904, at 6 A.M., passed Elephant Point at 8.30, and
at 9.45 were between the China Bakir light
and the
pilot brig Kyauktan. At 4.15 P.M. the cherub log
registered 71 miles from the brig,
and we were
opposite the Baragua lightship, and five hours later,
128 miles from the brig,
we had the Alguada light
abeam.
Alguada light is off Cape Negrais, which is north
of Pagoda Point, the south-west point of Lower
Burma and of the Arakan coast, which latter
extends north to the Naf estuary at Chittagong.
The next day at
noon we had steamed 190 miles
from Alguada light, and had just passed the volcanic
Foul Island, recently surveyed for a lighthouse.
At
2.15 P.M. we cast anchor in the open roadstead
of Sandoway, the Burmese Thandwe, where we
remained less than an hour and a half. About 8
P.M. we were off the south-western point of Cheduba
Island, and the next morning anchored in Kyaukpyu
harbour at the northern end of Ramri Island, where
we remained less than two hours.
The same day,
at 4 P.M., two hours after passing a gold-tipped
pagoda on the coast, we made fast to the wharf at
Akyab.