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deep bay. Vessels coming into Singapore from 

 the Straits of Malacca, having to round St. John's 

 Hill, can be descried as far as the Karioaons from 

 Dtibiakmig MaiL * The lover of the picturesque 

 will find ample materials? to gratify his taste as 

 he passes through the cluster ofislauds which 

 here gem the bo^om of the deep ; Barn island. 

 Alligator idand, the Rabbitand Coney, (two small 

 islands, which hear a strong similarity in figure 

 to I he aniifials whose name they bear), besides 

 several other;*, present to the inexperienced aud 

 bewildered eye a labyrinth of ij*lands, through 

 which the manner has to thread his way. The 

 unexpected manner, in which the town and ship- 

 ping burst upon the view, as the vessel sweeps 

 round the island of St John's, which forms the 

 left point of the bay of Singapore, &c. is striking 

 in the extreme. 



The harbor presents a bustlinj? and a pleasing 

 scene. Outside of the merchantmen are the king's 

 ships easily to be distinguished by their long, low, 

 hu!l8,whilst their tight and fairy masti» andspars rest 

 in faint and delicate relief against the deep blue 

 sky; next to them, the hug'- Indianien are to be 

 seen, like Leviathans half emerging from the deep, 

 and as it were, frowning disdainfully on the smaller 

 country craft lying closer in shore ; and the group 

 is completed by the clumsy appearance of a Co- 

 chin-Chinese frigate or two, and the grotesque 

 Chinese junks, which, varying in size, and 

 vying with each other in the gaudiness and fan- 



• Wu-r-^y. ^ ,r.-,j/* TlikUn high htl}, hearing about S. W ■ 



ore, and fumine a piirtiot) of New Harbor/* " 

 \ ■ l^'l*-' ^" M*rcli iir Ajml t^^a3, wtien a nrnture 



wilh ii,>Jiai)d exottt^ra, in ordi-r to tdr|ji':»(.l, ihe a,.pnisch of vcs- 

 sfib. 1 i-aauwn says Uiai a Malay wai mut d«rcd bt-liiod tit t hill. wbeiie« 



