VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA. 65 



I found nothing- new here as regards the formation of stones, 

 only they seemed to be more intersected with quartz. The har- 

 dened clay was also more vivid in colour. After low tide we 

 returned to our ship, which lay three miles from this ieland. 



June 1-2. — I had an opportunity to send some intelligence 

 of my present condition to my friends on the coast of Bengal, 

 as Captain Peters returned thither. Captain Peters is a very 

 merry, industrious, honest, and obliging man, and so I used 

 part of these days to write letters. The rest of the day I cleaned 

 my shells, which might otherwise have proved unpleasant for the 

 ship on account of their commencing putrifi cation. 



3. — Captain Peters took all my letters. His ship took tin 

 from our captain and left the harbour in the afternoon to sail for 

 its destination. My best wishes for a happy and speedy journey 

 accompanied him. 



4. — I went to Pullu Jambu, an island, which might rather 

 be called a land-point because only a swamp, which is only 

 flooded at high tide, separates it from the island Junk Ceylon. 

 It has the same direction as the two Salangs and on entering 

 the harbour it lies on the right-hand side. It consists of two 

 middling high but narrow mountains, which are separated by 

 a valley. The front part of this island is closely covered with 

 high trees; there seems to be one place in the valley which 

 is not overgrown with trees, and also a hill, which lies in front 

 of the mountain furthest inland, and seems not to produce any 

 trees, but is covered with a kind of light green grass, which 

 gives a very pleasant view in the distance. Unfortunately 

 however this grass grows to almost a man's height and con- 

 sists of a kind of sugarcane, which according to my former 

 description is a Sacharum cUandrum, so it is more preferable to 

 look at it from the distance than to be close by. The foot 

 of the mountain consists of a hardened many-coloured kind of 

 clay, and here and there one can see some schist at the 

 southern side; the rest of the mountain consists of yellow- 

 red clay, much intermixed with mould. 



The bamboo and the sugarcane made this island a favourite 

 resort for elephants, therefore as soon as one comes into the 

 jungle, one finds many paths made by the elephants, and that 

 these paths really originate from them is shown by their 

 dung, which one finds everywhere. I was told that there 



