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nately, been lost. Mr. Brooke seems to think it probable 

 that Dalrymple was misled by the term Ka-dy-an. 



The coast from hence runs to Mankabung Bluff; the 

 river of this name being about two miles to the S.W. of 

 it. It can be entered by boats, or small traders ; the in- 

 habitants, which appear to be of a friendly disposition, 

 have a small village within, on the right. They offered 

 us dried fish and fowls, but I suspect them to be very 

 poor. Dalrymple remarks : 



"Mangcaboong river is inhabited by Islam, it is 

 populous, there is a sand bar, with two fathoms at high 

 water; at low, large Sooloo boats cannot enter within 

 three or four fathoms ; there is a salt lake about three 

 miles from the bar, it has two fathoms, and in some 

 places one fathom. The river above the lake is rapid 

 and full of rocks, so that it is not navigable but by 

 canoes; some say it comes from the lake of Keeney 

 Balloo ; but Dato Saraphodin thinks otherwise. This 

 place, and those before mentioned produce some Pepper." 



We now come to the Pulos Gaya, or Gaya Group, one 

 of the best, and most completely land-locked harbours on 

 this coast. It is formed by a high bluff on the east, to 

 which I have given the name of Tanjong Gaya ; by the 

 Great Gaya Island on the west ; and by the smaller 

 Islands of Sapangar, Manukan, Manukan-Kichi, and a 

 third nameless rock, stretching across the mouth. The 

 main entrance lies between Sapingar and Manukan. 

 Within these bounds lie situated the rivers Kabatuan and 

 Inanam. 



The Kabatuan, which may be approached to within 

 half a mile of its mouth, in five fathoms, is the more im- 



