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VOYAGE OF THE POTOMAC. 
[February, 
three thousand of all descriptions of natives. The Malays and 
Achenese, though called by the same general nanae Malay, are 
not in fact of the same origin. 
The ship Recovery, Luther Dana master, sailed from Salem 
for the Island of Sumatra on the fifteenth of June, eighteen hun- 
dred and tw^o, and came to anchor in Muckie on the nineteenth of 
May following. Dana was an intelligent master, and noted with ' 
a practical eye all he saw. He describes Lamboan Hadjee Bay 
as being formed by Point Mangin on the north, and Jampatnan on 
the south, comprehending within it Jampatnan, Muckie, Fulo 
Matt, Lamboan Hadjee Foirit, Fulo Cann, and Mangin, with some 
other places of less note. Muckie at that time was the residence 
of a powerful rajah, who owned a number of large proas. Lam- 
boan Hadjee was much larger than Muckie, but its rajah was by 
no means so powerful or rich. At the southern part of the dis- 
trict is Fulo Matt, Fulo Cann at the northern, and Lamboan 
Hadjee in the centre, forming in all the district of the same nam^. 
Froas and small craft commonly lie within a shoal bay, bor- 
dered on the southerly side by Lamboan Hadjee town ; near 
which is the landing, and the only place allowed for trade in the 
district. To the east of Lamboan Hadjee Foint, the land is low, 
and covered with trees, while from the northerly side of the bay 
there were but a few houses, the place having been lately burnt. 
A low, small, sandy island, which is formed on a coral bank, 
nearly covered at high water, lies between Fulo Matt and Lam- 
boan Hadjee Foint. This small island is not much or any more 
than a hundred rods from the mainland, and cannot be seen more 
than two or three miles from a ship's deck. Between this and 
the main shore is safe anchorage and smooth water, while the 
surf breaks high and continually on the outside of the island ; 
the shore where the surf is formed may be half a mile or more 
in length, and at low water is nearly bare, while the soundings are 
deep close aboard, and all around it. Turtles resort here in great 
numbers at certain seasons. To the southward and eastward of 
the island, near to the main, there are several dangerous shoals, 
and within a mile and a half of the island, which serve to defend 
the landing of Fulo Matt in front from the western swell, and 
from the south part of the bay within the island. 
The passage to the anchoring ground or harbour within the island 
