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the merit at least of being a true representation of a Javanese 
canoe, with its paddle and bamboo outrigger, was considered 
as not unworthy of being put into the engraver's hands. The 
shark being killed with a harpoon, was then hoisted upon 
deck and opened. The contents of its stomach formed a 
mass of such magnitude and variety as can scarcely be con- 
ceived. It consisted, among other articles, of the complete 
head of a female buffalo, a whole calf, a quantity of entrails 
and of bones, and large fragments of the upper and under 
shells of a considerable sized turtle. The length of the shark 
was ten feet eight inches. 
The Dutch have established a small fort at Anjerie point, 
consisting of a low earthen embankment, surrounded with a 
palisade of bamboo, and mounted with half a dozen four- 
pounder guns, some of them Avithout carriages, but others 
preserved apparently with so much care from the weather as 
to be surroimded with a roof of thatch. The whole garrison 
was composed of a serjeant, a corporal, and six privates ; 
and was intended as a protection to the village against Malay 
pirates, and, at the same time, as a post to receive and con- 
vey dispatches or intelligence to and from Batavia across the 
country, when any of their own ships or those of an enemy 
might make their appearance in the strait. This little fort, 
however insignificant in itself, was nevertheless not wholly 
uninteresting to us, from the circumstance of its containing, 
within the palisade, the remains of the late Colonel Cathcart, 
who died in the strait of Banca, when on his mission as Am- 
l^assador from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of 
China. The companions of his voyage erected in this fort a 
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