6 MESSRS. ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



Tongka and the mainland, only two hundred yards wide and, according 

 to tlie Admiralty Sailinc^ Directions, reported to liave a bar dant^erous 

 even to small craft such as ours, drawing little more than six feet of 

 water. On this occasion the passage proved simple and we could 

 have easily piloted our boat out ourselves, instead of, as it turned 

 oub, wasting an unnecessary and exorbitant fee on an ancient and 

 dacrepit Chinaman who took us over the shallows. 



Takuatuxo. 



Our next stop was at Takuatung, a deep and sheltered inlet, 

 where we collected on a hilly cope forming the west side of the inlet, 

 the eastern shore being a long sweep of dazzling white sand, edged 

 with noble casuarinas, while further inland the shores of the inlet 

 degenerated into mangrove swamp. We stopped a couple of days and 

 obtained two species new to the Malay Peninsula proper, viz, 

 PericrocoHvs 'peregrinus and Pakeornis fasciata. Mammals were 

 scarce and uninteresting. 



Takuapah. 



Some miles up the coast from Takuatung is Takuapah, an- 

 other deep inlet. It has three entrances, but only the northernmost is 

 safe and practicable at all seasons, the two other having dangerous 

 bars, especially in the S. W. monsoon. About thirty miles up the 

 inlet and some miles up the small river, navigable to small steamers, 

 lies the mining town of Takuapah, capital of the province of the same 

 name which exports a considerable amount of tin. 



We stopped for three days in the inlet, to the north of an 

 island which forms what is marked as Kopah Head on the 

 charts, and anchored next further up the inlet at Koh Rah, a small 

 eminence surrounded by mangrove and, further inland, Melaleuca, 

 trees. We obtained nothing of great interest in the inlet. 

 Koh Yam Yai axd Koh Yam Noi. 



Leaving Takuapah we spent a night in the channel between 

 these two islands, about 2 miles in extent, marke:! on the chart as the 

 " Sugar Loa\es." Nothing was obtained except Myna birds, Grarula 

 javana, and Imperial pigeon, Mu^cadlvorefi aenea, though other birds 

 exi.st. 



jouRx. xat. hist. soc. siam. 



