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drawino; more than fourteen or at the most fifteen feet, can 

 enter at the top of the tide. 



There are no marks required for this channel ; but with the 

 last of the flood (say three-quarters), enter between Kaloo and 

 Kai-kong, keeping about mid-channel, and when the western 

 point of the tmstern Kai-kong opens with the ragged point at 

 the S. W. extremity of tlie eastern Kai-kong, keep a little to 

 the northward, and pass the ragged point at the distance of a 

 quarter of a mile; then steer mid-channel between the islands, 

 remembering not to attempt the channel between the western 

 Kai-kong and the island of Makarina, The water will now 

 deepen, and when the town of Macao opens with the west 

 Kai-kong, and when the ragged point bears east^ anchoi- in 

 about eighteen or twenty feet water ; in which berth you will 

 have good riding ground over a muddy bottom. 

 The time of hio;h water is 9 h. 30 m. 



The tide at full and change rises 7 ft. 1 in.; rate about 2 k. 4 f.; 

 at the neap . . 2 1 .... 1 6. 



The flood sets to the northward from the anchorase, and 

 branches off on meeting the tide setting westward to the north 

 of Kai-kong. 



NAPAKIANG. 



LOO CHOO. 



Ships bound to Napakiang may pass close round the south 

 extremity of the island, and sail along the western coast at the 

 distance of a mile or a mile and a half They will then see a 

 sandy island in latitude 26° 05' 50" N., and longitude 7' 40" W. 

 of Abbey Point, which is the only danger to the westward of 

 Loo Choo that I am acquainted with, until near the Kirrama 

 Islands, or to the northward of the entrance of Napakiang. 



Abbey Point, at the south extremity of the port of Napa- 

 kiang, may be known by its ragged outline, and by a small 

 wooded eminence called Wood Point, situated about a mile 

 and a half to the southward of it. The mainland here fahs 

 back, and forms a bay, which is sheltered by coral reefs 

 stretching to the northward from Abbey Point ; they are, 

 however, disconnected, and between them and the point there 



