PULAU LANGKAWI. 29 
Gunong Chinchang, make up a picture not to be equalled any- 
where in the Straits of Malacca. 
The islets in the strait are called Pulau Kédra, and the fol- 
lowing are some of the names of the numerous islands to the 
West of Pulau Dayang Bunting:—Pulau Chupak (very small), 
Pulau Gubang, Pulau Jong, Telam Banton, Pulau Singha, and 
Pulau Bras Basah. 
To the North nearer to the shores of the main island, are 
Pulau Lalang, Pulau Ular, and Pulau Hantu. 
Steaming out of the strait and leaving Pulau Hantu on 
the right, we sighted Pulau Adang in the distance, far out to 
sea, bearing about N. N. W. This island is famous for its 
turtle: 
Then, passing between Pulau Tépur and Tanjong Sawah 
(the S. W. point of the main island), we steamed on past two 
islands—Pulau Rébah—and headed for Tanjong Bongkok 
Pennyt, called on the chart ‘The Dolphin’s Nose.” . This is a 
bold headland, the end of the Gunong Chinchang range, with 
a hump on the top of it. There are fishing stakes in the 
straits between the islands above-mentioned and Pulau Lang- 
kawi, and small settlements on the coast of the latter. Round 
the fishing stakes, flocks of gulls (chéuchamar) were wheeling. 
Nearly opposite Pulau Rébah is Tanjong Padikik. 
Entering the bay on the South side of Tanjong Bongkok 
Penny, we dropped anchor in deep water not far from shore. 
This place is called by the Malays Burau, which is a corrup- 
tion of two Siamese words dor ran,‘ old well” ; a walk of about 
a mile and a half through the jungle, ending with a steep 
climb, brings one out on a face of precipitous rock, through 
which a mountain torrent has worn itself a channel. Here we 
see the “well,” or series of wells (the Malays say there are 
seven and call the place ¢é/aga tujoh), from which the Siamese 
name originated. 
No longer in the bed of the stream, which has probably shifted, 
as the rock has been worn down under the attrition of centu- 
ries, there are here and there deep circular holes which seem 
to have been cut out with sufficient accuracy to excuse the 
natives of these parts for supposing that they are the work of 
mankind. But the stream close by has doubtless been the 
