230 BANCA STRAITS. 



escaped at Dory Harbour ; (New Guinea ;) the 

 other two I carried to Mindanao, where they 

 died."* 



We passed through the Straits of Dryan, with 

 a fine breeze from the north-east. On the morn- 

 ing of the 20th, we spoke the Honourable Com- 

 pany's ship. Marquis of Huntley, about the en- 

 trance of the Banca Straits, from China, bound 

 to the Cape, and England. We passed the 

 Banca Straits, and Lucepara Shoals, and entered 

 the Java Sea on the 22nd, having experienced 

 much rain during our passage from Singapore. 



On the 26th, we passed the beautifully pic- 

 turesque and umbrageous Zutphen Islands ; the 

 adjacent coast of Sumatra had also a rich wooded 

 appearance : the grand and majestic peaked 

 mountain of Rajah Bassa rose from the forest 

 land, towering to the clouds, and clothed in ver- 

 dure, but was sometimes concealed by the fleecy 

 mists which passed over it, as well as over the 

 lower land, discharging themselves in occasional 

 light and refreshing showers. The moisture 

 of the atmosphere occasioned a delightful fra- 

 grance to visit us from the shore. The island of 

 Thivart-the-ivay was passed about eight a.m.; 

 and in the afternoon we were becalmed ofl' the 



* Forrest's New Guinea, p. 74. 4to. 1780. 



