70 PULO P1SANG, AND OTHER ISLANDS. 



of that curious nondescript animal, the Spirula 

 Australis.* 



When in the longitude of about 130 E., 

 we recrossed the equator during a severe gale, 

 and steered south and west courses, in sight of 

 the islands Otah, Gagie, Pulo-f- Moar, and Joyie ; 

 the sea occasionally assuming a green hue, with 

 turbulent currents setting to both the east and 

 west. 



In the morning of the 3d of July we passed 

 close to an extensive chain of small and beau- 

 tiful islands, formed by the Weeda group, Pulo 

 Roa, Lapar-dammar, Little-dammar, Lookisong, 

 three others, whose names were unknown, or 

 not noted on our charts, and Pulo Pisang. The 

 last-named island is small though lofty, and in 

 the aspect we viewed it, appeared wholly com- 

 posed of two high mammillary-shaped moun- 

 tains. In the afternoon of the same day we 

 passed close to Maccluer's rock, or " danger- 

 stone," (a naked vlgia, resembling the hull of a 

 ship,) and entered Gasses-straits, a channel 



* The nearest approach we made to the possession of 

 this rare animal, was by taking, in a towing-net, the 

 inferior portion of the body, with the camerated shell 

 in situ, and protruding through the soft parts in the 

 normal manner. This fragment was of a bright orange- 

 colour. 



f Pulo, in the Malay language, signifies an island. 



