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Island of 

 Cracatoa. 



Bantam. 



M A L A Y A N I S L E S. 



tion advances fo rapidly, that notwithftanding what is cut for the 

 life of the fliipping, it feems nothing impaired. If, has fome in- 

 habitants fo like in figure, color, manners, and even language, to 

 thofe of the fouth fea illands, as greatly to ftrike Captain Coo^, 

 who anchored here in 1780, after having been fo long converfant 

 with them. The chief bufinefs of the natives is to fupply the 

 fliipping with fowls, fmall tortoifes, or green turtle, hog deer 

 weighing about forty pounds ; monkies, fome vegetables, and 

 above all water. 



This iiland is as unhealthy as the reft of thefe fatal coafts ; 

 which has induced many navigators to prefer taking water at 

 the ifle of Cracatoa, a fmall fpot about nine miles in circum- 

 ference, and fome leagues to the north-eaft of Prince^ iiland. 

 In one part is a hot fpring, ufed by the natives as a bath. The 

 ifland is high, rifing gradually from the fea, and covered with 

 trees. In the coral reefs which fkirt the fliores are plenty of 

 fmall green turtle. 



Between Hog point in Sumatra, and Cickorang in Java, the 

 ftreights fuddenly contrail. In the middle are the fmall ifles, 

 called Midchannel ifland, the IJle de Milieu, and the rock Le graiid 

 Toque. Le Brun * calls the breadth a league and a half. After 

 doubling the point, appears the bay of Bantam, deep, round, 

 and fprinkled over with many fmall iiles ; at the bottom is the 

 city, capital of the kingdom. After Sir James Lancajler left 

 Acheen he failed to this port ; the king was one of the hidian mo- 

 narchs whom Elizabeth honored with her correfpondence; her 

 later w-as gracioufly received. Lancajler eftablifhed here our 



* Vol. ii. 38. 



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