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A VmT TU THE IN DUN AKCII I PELAOO. 



CHAPTER II. 



Hi.W IIAItlMrun^AlL PAQM 91 !ICA POIE— ^AHtO RQl^n— FKOITIUIESTT A.1t ^HE ILAJMt'a 



While prepamtious were making for the establishment 

 at Labuau, the Mmimkr refitted in the snug and 

 pictni'esqiie New Harbour, wJn'cIi aj>peai'fi to have been 

 overlooked \n selecting the fii-st points of settlement ; the 

 only objection to ^ it as a harbour is the intricacy of 

 the caaterti entrance ; a difficidty wliich, by the inti^oduc- 

 tion of steam, liaiS become of httle consequence. Ko 

 place could be better adapted for a coal <iep6t ; and, as a 

 harbour for a man-of-war to refit, it is most convenioiifc. 

 The forge can bo landed, boats re])aired, and the artifice i s 

 enijiloyed under commodious sjiede, and all mi dor the 

 inuiiediate eye of the officers on board. It lias another 

 great advantage over Sincapore roads ; in the latter 

 iinchorage a shiji's bottoni becomes mere foul than in any 

 otlicr tliat I know of,^ — pcrha|>s froia the near praximity to 

 tlie bottom ; this is not the case in New Harbour, through 



