JL0 jVOYAGE PROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA. 



|ilreadj in different places, both on my journey to India and on 

 ^those to Ceylon. There was also much green matter swimming" 

 in the water, some of it looked like a Medusa, but it was very 

 deep under the water. There were many parts of the Medusa 

 porpita ; there are rarely any living- ones to be discovered. Many 

 fruits of the different kinds of Rhizophora were floating- on the 

 sea. A Diomede* was caug-ht, which was very thin. We were 

 on the 6th deg-ree north latitude. The sun at his setting, showed 

 ^many little cloudlets resembling- scales, which presented an admi- 

 rable picture of fire and purple and now and then one saw big- 

 spots of vivid sea-gTeen colour slightly intersected by darker 

 shadows. These were held to be a sign of storms to come. 



5. — Early to-day we had heavy rains and contrary wind 

 and were hardly able to keep our course. We saw Pullu Pera 

 at a great distance on our right hand. It is said to be one solitary 

 rock quite uninhabited ; to us it looked like a low cupola. 



6. — To-day we had alternately contrary wind, dead calm and 

 some showers. The current brought us near the land and we 

 could see Pullu Lada quite distinctly; it consisted of several 

 small islands, which are very high and mountainous. 



7. — The calm continued ; or when there was any wind it 

 brought showers of rain and was contrary. Towards the even- 

 ing one anchor was cast, because the current might bring us 

 too near the land. We saw many kinds of birds, which however 

 kept at a distance. The sea was full of the seed of the Rhizop- 

 hora. 



8. — To-day we approached the rocks of Pullu Lada as near 

 as one German mile. We contemplated them through a telescope 

 because we did not wish to get any nearer to them. They were 

 of different sizes, all were narrow and divided from each other 

 by channels. They all consisted of rocky mountains, which 

 seemed to be very steep at the side facing the sea, some of these 

 mountains were long in extent and full of clefts, only a few had 

 the shape of a cone. One among them resembled entirely the 

 Lion Mountain of the Cape, with a high ridge which gets lower 

 towards the neck. The peak was quite narrow, conically rising, 

 almost every where covered with trees ; except at those places 

 where the rocks hung over or were very steep where 

 there was no vegetation of any kind to be seen. We could 



* Albatross. 



