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replenishing our stock of these articles, in the Strait 

 of Sunda. A party had likewise been occupied in 

 drawing the seine at the head of the harbour, where 

 they took a great many good fish ; and another party 

 in cutting down the cabbage-palm, which was boiled, 

 and served out with the meat. Besides this, having 

 been able to procure only a scanty supply of cordage at 

 Macao, the repairing of our rigging was become an 

 object of constant attention, and demanded all our 

 spare time. 



Pulo Condore is high and mountainous, and sur- 

 rounded by several smaller islands, some of which 

 are less than one, and others two miles distant. It 

 takes its name from two Malay words, Pulo, signify- 

 ing an island, and Condore, a calabash, of which it 

 produces great quantities. It is of the form of a 

 crescent, extending near eight miles from the south- 

 ernmost point, in a north-east direction ; but its 

 breadth no where exceeds two miles. From the 

 westernmost extremity, the land trends to the south- 

 east for about four miles; and opposite to this part 

 of the coast there is an island, called by Monsieur 

 D' Apres * Little Condors, which runs two miles in 

 the same direction. This position of the two islands 

 affords a safe and commodious harbour, the entrance 

 into which is from the north-west. The distance 

 between the two opposite coasts is three-quarters of 

 a mile, exclusive of a border of coral rock, which 

 runs down along each side, extending about one 

 hundred yards from the shore. The anchorage is 

 very good, from eleven to five fathoms' water, but 

 the bottom is so soft and clayey, that we found great 

 difficulty in weighing our anchors. Toward the bot- 

 tom of the harbour there is shallow water for about 

 half a mile, beyond which the two islands approach 

 so near each other, as to leave only a passage at high 

 water for boats. The most convenient place for 



* Neptune Oriental. 

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