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LAND AND SEA BREEZES. 



October 15.— At sunrise, this morning, Lombock 

 Peak and the high lands about it were still plainly 

 visible, while in the S.W, was an almost equally 

 fine mountain in the island of Bali, called Bali 

 Peak,* which, according to the Dutch, is likewise 

 over 11,000 feet in height. As the sun got up, 

 however, both these fine mountains became invisible 

 in the hot haze. 



October 16. —At daylight we were off Cape 

 Sedano, a place famous for pirates and tigers, over 

 which was a fine mass of hills, 4,600 feet high. 

 All the way from Alass Strait to Sourabaya, it was 

 commonly calm at midday and midnight, with land 

 or sea-breezes morning and evening. This afternoon 

 we sounded in 55 fathoms, and brought up some 

 fine green mud, with black specks, all of which 

 effervesced strongly with acids, appearing wholly 

 calcareous. 



October 17.— It was again quite calm this morn- 

 ing, and we found ourselves floating off Pulo Gilling 

 Antang, with several boats and prahus of curious 

 rig and construction, either rowing, or trimming their 

 mat sails to slight pufls of air. Some of them ap- 

 peared to be fishing, others crossing between Java 

 and Madura. We saw two square-rigged vessels at 

 anchor off Sumcnap, on the eastern end of Madura, 

 which place appeared low in comparison with the 

 mountainous land of Java. It had, however, a range 



* The native name is Carang Assam. 



