-518 ESSAY TOWARDS AN ACCOUNT OF SULTJ. 
Panganak is merely a rock covered with shrubs. 
Kuhangan has no inhabitants; it appears like two islands, there 
being a low isthmus in the middle: It is very woody. 
Tulyan is high land, the hills form an amphitheatre with a 
large valley in the middle, to which two or three breaks between 
the hills, form a passage; particularly on the south part where 
there is a large plain, between the Peak Hill and the Green 
Midge , covered with woods: The island is not at present inhabit¬ 
ed, but formerly it was, and had then many cattle, cocoanut, and 
other fruit trees, which were destroyed by the Spaniards , in their 
last expedition against Sulu. 
The woods are not in general large towards the shore; they are 
of various kinds, and many of them good timber; the Alexandrian 
Laurel is common enough, and by much the largest I have seen; 
one of them, growing on the shore, being above two fathom in 
circumference: There are several put trees on the island: the 
leaves are dark green, pretty large and high ribbed; the dammer 
is in general as white as milk; and has the consistency, and some¬ 
what of the smell of turpentine, it seems to oose entirely from the 
bark. 
The shore is, in some places, so steep that a large ship may ca¬ 
reen by it, but the island is but ill supplied with water: The bay 
is very commodious and secure for a few ships. 
Bulekutin , which forms, with part of Sulu, a harbour for 
small vessels, is a low woody island without water. 
Kapual is inhabited, and produces considerable quantities ef 
paddy ; it is pretty high land, with woods of very large fine tim¬ 
ber, and has plenty of deer. 
Bateenan is not so high as JCapual, but little different from it 
otherwise. 
Saang are several small rocky keys, which form a cove with 
the south coast of Sulu, but whether there be depth within, or any 
passage through them, is uncertain. 
j Dong-dong is a long low woody island, at the S. E. end are 
several rocks above water. 
Tambulean is a small low woody island, which seems to have 
a reef all round it. 
Pata is a pretty large inhabited island, off Saang-Bag : The 
western paid is high land; the east low. It has a good stock 
of cattle, and, it is said, one very old elephant: There are 3 pits 
of very white saltpetre earth, which yields J of petre. 
Dammukan is another small low woody island, close to the 
north end of Pata. 
Lumbuean f similar to the former, and close to it. 
Patean is tolerably high, abounds with water, and is reported 
to have a cove, with depth of water for any ship, on the east side, 
which fronts the coast of Sulu, and is therefore land-locked. 
Perm aba l is a low woody island. 
