1845.] RIVER BAROW. 279 



" The next river is a very large one, sometimes called 

 Barow, and sometimes Curan, from different places near 

 it; the first is an independent state, in alliance with 

 Sooloo, the other is subject to Sooloo. The river has 

 three fathoms at the mouth, but there are several shoals 

 which require a pilot." 



This river has been already noticed. It is the Pantai, 

 one of the branches, or properly the main stream, 

 which takes the name of Brraou, and gives its name to 

 people of the district, the city being Gunung Taboor, 

 before described. It is only in the state of Curan, and 

 the state, at present, as in Dalrymple's time, in alliance 

 with Sooloo. The river has eight and ten fathoms at its 

 mouth, but for ten miles seaward, not more than three 

 fathoms at high water. Probably the last eighty years 

 have rendered it a fathom less, not having noio more 

 than two fathoms at low water. 



" There is a considerable trade in Cocoa-nuts carried 

 on from Tuattee, or Celebes, to Barow, which they call 

 Barong ; according to their accounts, the river is very 

 deep within, and the country yields much Bird's nests, 

 and other valuable commodities. But, although the 

 Sooloos agree in the magnitude of the river, they deny 

 that their country is of much consequence with respect to 

 its produce. This river is in the bottom of a deep bay, 

 the land running from thence to the eastward, termi- 

 nating in a point of red land, called on account of its 

 peculiar colour, Tanna Mera, (Red land,) off which are 

 many islands. The northern part of this point is called 

 Sabannoong, from whence the land runs as much to the 

 westward to a large river named Baroongan or Booloongan, 



