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during the N.W. monsoon, when water is everywhere 

 abundant, and with the wind to the N.W., it would 

 be no doubt a sufficiently good anchorage. It is, 

 however, but a shallow bight encumbered by rocks 

 and shoals, with no shelter from the S.E. trade 

 wind nearer than the main land opposite, and we 

 failed to discover any water ; though in the May 

 of the following year, the Midge procured there 

 sufficient for her wants. Near the beach, in the 

 centre of the bight, we found a singular native 

 tomb, apparently quite recent. 



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Round a central mound of sand, there had been 

 a broad ditch or hollow scooped out, and swept 

 quite clean for several yards in width. The mound 

 was of a quadrangular form, eight feet long, four 

 feet wide, and three feet high. A stout post stood 



