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EXAMINATION OF THE COAST OF 
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being mostly wliat the Malays call Kayu Glam. The trees grow at 
a good distance from each other, with little or no underwood. Here, 
I am sorry to say, no indications of coal were to be seen. On the 
afternoon both-boats met, when we returned to the Steamer, weighed 
and steamed to the northward, passing Sungei Kayu Kamuning, 
which, on a former occasion, I had visited with Colonel Low in the 
boats of the Hooghly. 
At 4 p. m. we came to in 2 fathoms water, about a | of a mile off 
a point of land called Tanjong Patong.* This point is rocky, of mo¬ 
derate height, and has the appearance of an Island, but it is joined 
to the low swampy land on the coast. It was here that the Gunboat 
got the sample of coal [described ante p. 160.] This point lies in 
Lat. 7° 37’ 12” N., and is distant from the Fort Point at Pinang 
155 miles, in about a N. N. IV. direction. On landing on Tanjong 
Patong, we found several Siamese, who stated they had been sent from 
Trang, by orders from the Rajah of Lfgor, to collect all the coal they 
could get, and send it across the country from Trang to Lfgor, as 
the Rajali required the whole for his own use. They then enquired 
if we had come to take the coal, adding that they had orders to guard 
it. When I demanded to see the Rajah’s written orders, they said 
they had none. I then told the head man that I would not give him 
or any body else one Dollar for all the coal I saw in their boats or on 
the point, but that, as I was now here, I intended to dig a hole and 
see if there was any coal underneath, what they were picking up be¬ 
ing nothing but black stones which would not burn. They said, if 
that was the case, they would not remain any longer, but return to 
Trang. After clearing away a space of variegated Flag stones, I or¬ 
dered the crew to commence digging a large square pit, a little be¬ 
low high water mark, through a stiff blue clay. This pit we con¬ 
tinued digging through the stiff blue clayfwhfth gradually became hard¬ 
er, until it changed into a hard gray sandstone, with, here and there, 
thin black streaks, like blades of Buffaloe grass. During the digging 
of this pit the water constantly kept oozing in all round, so that the 
* In the Charts the places where coal has been found are marked C.— Ed. 
