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STRAIT OF SUNDA, 
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of Lampoon Bay, in latitude 5° 54' south, longitude 105° 43' 30" 
east, or r 8' 30" west from Batavia, by chronometer. This point 
forms the southeast extremity of Sumatra, and here is the nar- 
rowest part of the strait, it being only fourteeen miles across 
to Java. 
There is a rock six or seven feet above water, two miles noirth- 
west from Hog Point, called Collier's Rock, being about fifty feet 
in circuit, and fifty distant from it lies a coral rock under water. 
These two dangers are about a mile distant from the shore, with 
fifty or fifty-five fathoms close to them on the outside. There is 
another rock above water bearing south from Hog Point, distant 
two thirds of a mile, with sixty-five or seventy fathoms outside 
of it, and deep water between it and the point, which is very bold, 
and surrounded by deep water. 
Fronting the Sumatran shore to the northeast of Hog Point, are 
Zutphen Islands, which are sometimes called Hog Islands, and 
sometimes the Hounds. Between them and the main are several 
shoals and islets, with anchorage among them in some places. 
The largest of these islands, and part of the coast adjacent, are 
high land, mostly covered with wood ; to the southward they are 
very steep, having from forty to fifty fathoms of water very near 
them, where they ought not to be closely approached ; but towards 
the northernmost of the group there are from twenty- three to thirty 
fathoms, and here ships might occasionally anchor, particularly 
olf the north end of this island, which lies in latitude 5° 50' 
south. A river empties its waters near this place, and about a 
mile and a half from its mouth stands a village called Tangrea, 
with rice-fields around it, cattle, poultry, and plenty of cocoanuts. 
But the natives are not to be trusted. 
Having thus taken a brief look at the Sumatran shore on the 
northwest side of the Strait of Sunda, we now beg the reader to 
accompany us " on the other tack," and take a peep at the Java 
coast, which lines the southeast side of the same strait. 
We have already stated that there are two<^hannels to enter the 
Strait of Sunda from the Indian Ocean, one between Java Head 
and Prince's Island, and the other outside of Prince's Island, the 
latter being the one selected by the Potomac. The channel between 
this island and the shores of Java is about four miles broad. It 
is called Prince's Strait, and sometimes the Behouden, or Safe Pas- 
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