160 VIEW OF THE EASTERN CAPE OF ASIA. 



headland to the eastward arrested our attention, and 

 making towards it we observed therefrom the three 

 islands in the straits and land still trending to 

 the eastward ; then returning to Noonahmone we 

 remained at that place for the night. 



The information gained here respecting a wreck 

 was much the same as that given at Yandangah, but 

 our communicant was so stupid as to damp our 

 ardent search for further particulars. 



On the 8th we started for Cheengeen, and while 

 driving round a bay to its eastern extreme, mounted 

 a tall hummock of rough ice on the sea, whence we 

 saw with great distinctness the three islands in the 

 middle of the straits and the loom of the opposite 

 shore. We took a sketch and observations at this 

 point, after which we went on to Cheengeen. Prom 

 this position, which was high, we had at last the 

 great satisfaction of viewing, without a shadow of 

 doubt, the Eastern Cape of Asia, rising to a con- 

 siderable height above the sea, and crowned with 

 rough points and a large and populous village. 



Respecting the wreck, about which we natm'ally 

 made inquiries on every possible opportunity, we 

 were here told that only fragments of a hull and stern 

 frame had been thrown up, from which, in place of 

 pots or knives, only nails had been drawn. The 



