SAILING DIRECTIONS. 
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: COPELAND ISLAND is small and wedge-shaped, its 4 . 
summit is in latitude 11° 28', and longitude 132° 43' ; four Sect. III, 
miles and a quarter W.N.W. from it is a covered sand-bank N. Coast, 
having nine feet water near its edge ; it was not quite certain 
whether it was joined to the land or not, from which it is 
distant two miles and a half. 
On the western side of the bay there is a strait two miles 
wide separating Croker’s Island from the main ; it is ten or 
eleven miles in length, and is navigable since the Malay 
fleet were observed to pass through it. 
CROKER’S ISLAND is twenty-one miles and a quarter 
from north to south, and from two to five broad, its northern 
extremity is in 10° 58' 30" latitude, and 132° 34' 10" longi- 
tude ; about three-quarters of a mile within it there is a 
remarkable rocky knob: its south extreme is in 11 ° IQi'. 
: Palm Bay, on its western side, is an excellent anchorage 
in the easterly monsoon ; it is four miles and a half wide, 
and nearly three deep. The shore is rocky for a mile off, 
and the south point has a rocky shoal projecting to the 
W.N.W. for a mile and a quarter. 
DARCH’S ISLAND is separated from Croker’s Island 
by a navigable strait two miles wide ; near the reef at the 
north-east end we had six fathoms, but in mid-channel the 
depth was as much as eleven fathoms. A considerable reef 
projects off the east end for more than a mile. The island 
is about two miles and three-quarters long, and is thickly 
wooded; its north point is in latitude 11° 7' 30", 
RAFFLES BAY forms a good port during any season ; 
it is seven miles deep, and from two to three broad : beyond 
