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VOYAGE OF THE POTOMAC. 
[March, 
105° 54' east, about two leagues eastward of Fourth Point. It is not 
easily perceived in coming from the westward, being situated in a 
bay where the houses or huts are scattered among the cocoanut-trees, 
and nearly obscured by them, and b}^ an elevated chain of inland 
hills. The most easterly of these is a sharp-peaked hill, called 
Anger Peak, directly over the village. Ships frequently touch at 
this place in the southerly monsoon, to procure refreshments ; 
but the road is not considered safe or convenient in the opposite 
season, for it is 'then dangerous landing, on account of the high 
surf. Here may be procured buffaloes, hogs, poultry, vegetables, 
and sometimes turtle. The common anchorage is in Anger Road, 
in from nine to fourteen fathoms, abreast of the village, and water 
may be had by employing boats for that purpose. 
John Barrow, Esq., who was here with the English embassy to 
Cochin China in February, 1793, very warmly recommends 
this place, in preference to any other in the strait, for procuring 
water and refreshments. After mentioning the low prices at 
whieh they procured fowls, capons, and buffaloes, he adds — " The 
natives usually come off" in their canoes, to ships which may 
anchor here, with plentiful supplies of the fruits peculiar to the 
island, and other vegetables that may be in season. The air is 
dry and pleasant ; and a cool refreshing breeze descends from the 
high lands of Java, spreading its fragrance to a distance much 
beyond the anchorage of the ships. Yet because this side of the 
strait is occasionally subject to calms, which may sometimes have 
caused the delay of two or three days at the utmost, few of the 
outward-bound China ships touch at Anjerie, preferring to take 
in a fresh supply of wood and water at North Island, or rather on 
the Sumatra shore opposite to this island, where only wood and 
water are procurable, and where numbers of seamen yearly fall 
a sacrifice, either to Malay treachery, from the plunderers who are 
always lurking among the forests on this part of the coast, or to 
the unhealthiness of the place, occasioned by the heavy nightly 
fogs that hang over this low marshy shore, and the noxious vapours 
arising from the putrefactive fermentation of vegetable matter; 
an operation which, in this region of the world, is incessantly 
carrying on." These .observations were made many years ago ; 
and whether they be applicable now, we are not prepared to 
say, as the Potomac did not touch on either side to procure 
