298 Mr. GoUinghain on the Pendulum at the Equator. [Oct* 



quake was felt, which is stated to have given the earth an un- 

 dulatory motion for some minutes — another (but a sUghter) 

 shock was felt shortly afterwards; these shocks appeared to 

 come from the east, in the direction of Mount Ophir. On the 

 6th, at night, two vessels, one with Captain Crisp, and the 

 pther with Mr. Lawrence on board, sailed for Nattal, and ar- 

 ifived late at night on the 7th. On the 8th and 9th, observa- 

 tions made. On the 10th, in the morning, the position of 

 Nattal Hill was laid down. In the evening they left Nattal on 

 the packet-boat for Pulo Pinnee, arrived at sun-set on the 11th, 

 and anchored close to a coral-reef, the water on which being 

 too shallow, they proceeded to the land, the south-east part of 

 the island, in the small boat, where observations were taken for 

 the latitude and longitude ; they returned in the evening to the 

 packet-boat, and sailed for Pulo Panjong, where they arrived 

 on the 15th of October. Early on the 23d, the conductor and 

 sub-conductor, with a great part of the baggage, embarked 

 on the packet-boat, and Mr. Lawrence on the small boat, for 

 Pulo Pinnee ; but, owing to adverse winds, and bad weather, 

 were obliged to return on the 26th to Pulo Panjong. The Pa- 

 dres, a sect of Musselraan fanatics, being expected to attack 

 our possessions on this part of the coast, Captain Crisp waa 

 appointed to a command by Sir Stamford Raffles. On the 31st, 

 that officer and his family embarked on a brig for Nattal. Ob- 

 servations for the rates of chronometers, and for the latitude 

 and longitude, were commenced, and sketches of the coast 

 made. The Eleanor returned from Bencoolen on the 5th of 

 November. On the 17th of November, Captain Crisp arrived 

 in a small boat from Nattal. On the 19th, Captain Crisp in one 

 boat, and Mr. Lawrence and the conductors m another, sailed 

 for Pulo Pinnee ; the night having been very dark, the boats 

 parted company, and the latter went on past Pulo Pahgaugo as 

 far as Tooleechemanah Point — the wind being strong, with a 

 heavy sea, they were obliged to make best of their way back to 

 Pulo Panjong. At sun-rise, made another attempt to proceed to 

 Pulo Pinnee, and arrived at the south-east extremity on the 23d — 

 landed and commenced cutting down trees, and clearing a place 

 for the tents. On the 26th, the brig Eleanor, having left Pulo 

 Panjong on the 21st, arrived with Captain Crisp and Mr. Ro- 

 binson, the greater part of the instruments, tents, and baggage ; 

 the brig anchored about five miles off' shore. In the course of 

 the day. Captain Crisp, accompanied by the sub-conductor, 

 came on shore in a boat, and afterwards returned to the brig, 

 with the intention of sending the instruments, and all the other 

 articles, on shore in the morning ; but there having been very 

 heavy squalls from the north-west at night, during which the 

 only two boats they had were lost, it became impossible to 

 land any thiog, and the Eleanor was, therefore^ got under 



