PULAU LANGKAWI. 30 
nature of the inscription than I was able to make may be 
arrived at. I give below the opening sentences as far as 
they are decipherable; of the remainder only a word here 
and there can be made out. 
pam yy) re 1a ame) 
Sraile) Nesey Syneyy stl didane lel] stay WWlours!! 
| She ob 
There is an upper chamber in the cave to which the Raja 
and I climbed by means of a boat’s mast and a rope, but there 
is little there to repay curiosity. Some enormous stalactites 
hang suspended at the entrance of the lower cave, but how 
the princess and her attendants managed to close the mouth 
of it with stones, as the Kedah chronicler represents them to 
have done, is not apparent to the modern visitor. 
We quitted this beautiful island with regret, wishing that it 
had been possible to learn something of the interior. We 
passed Teluk Udang and then Sungei Kilin, where there is a 
creek between two headlands of the usual limestone type. Not 
far from this there is a curious island—Pulau Petukang—which 
looks like a wall of masonry; next, beyond a rocky promontory, 
Tanjong Béluru, a point covered with mangrove, came in 
sight, and passing Sungei Kisap, where Chinese have estab- 
lished themselves and cut firewood for export to Penang, we 
emerged into open water at Tanjong Dagu opposite to Tan- 
jong Tumbus on Pulau Dundang. 
Leaving this at 4 P.M., we reached Penang inthe Sea Bird 
at midnight. 
W:-E) MAXWELL. 
