44 O S B E C K'S VOYAGE. 



to be another fmall one : but perhaps it is 

 jiot feparated from the other. 



The 1 6th of January. 



Generally rain)' and inconftant weather. 



The laft night we anchored in the Straits 

 ef Banka, near the mores of Sumatra, where 

 the river Palimbanka difcharges itfelf in the 

 fea, after we had, the night before, pafled by 

 Mcnopin, or the laft high mountain on the 

 jfland of Banka, oppolite Sumatra. 



¥ REDE-RiCK-Henry, a rock hidden under the 

 water, (which has formerly been the ruin of 

 many mips) was palled very happily. 



About noon we faw the third (but count- 

 ing from Canton the firft) Cape on Sumatra, 

 covered with the fined and fcarceft trees, fo 

 that it looked as if the whole country confided 

 of a cut garden-hedge. The moil: outward 

 were probably Indian canes, and the reft fomp 

 kinds of Palm trees. The country appeared 

 finer at this diftance than I am able to defcribe. 

 The people were tfefcribed to me as affaiTuis ; 



and 



