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was seized by the Malays at Quallah-Battoo, has been trading on 
this coast for more than fifteen years, during which period he has, 
profitably for his country, filled up all the tedious and vexatious 
delays incidental to a pepper voyage, by a laborious and careful 
survey of the coast, of which no chart was previously extant 
which could be relied on. Captain Endicott has since published 
the result of his labours in a neat, well-executed chart, on a large 
scale, accompanied with sailing directions, comprising almost 
every item of information requisite for navigators in these waters. 
This chart comprises all that portion' of coast which is included 
between Sinkel, in 2° 18' and 4° 15' north. 
Actuated by a like commendable zeal for the commercial inter- 
ests of his native country. Captain Gillis has extended the surveys- 
to latitude 5° north, and published an excellent chart, accompanied 
also with sailing directions. 
These are important acquisitions to our knowledge of this- 
coast, and will increase the security of our merchants and mari- 
ners. When, in pursuance of the present wisely-adopted policy 
of our government, she shall send another armed vessel in thef 
track of the Potomac, to visit this coast and look after our com- 
mercial interests there, it is hoped that she may be supplied with 
copies of these charts, on which rehance may be placed as far as 
they go ; and that she will not, as was the case with the Potomac, 
run up into the mountains by chart, before in fact she reaches the 
shore ! We gladly embrace this opportunity to acknowledge our 
obligations to both these gentlemen for much valuable informatiow 
and many interesting facts. 
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