THE MALAY PENINSULA YOU COAL. 
having found anything like coal. Lontar is composed of red rotten 
rock on its south and west sides, and a large track of low swampy 
land, running north and south, in the middle, and high lime stone 
rocks on its N. E. end. 
On the morning of the 5th. we steamed round the south end of 
jjontar, and stood to the north towards Tama, Colonel Low having 
been informed by natives that Coal was to be found close to the west¬ 
ward of the place from which I had formerly brought some black 
specimens. In the afternoon we arrived at Tama. Early in the 
6 th. I manned the boats and went on shore, Colonel Low going to¬ 
wards Tama, and I round Tanjong Putin In the afternoon both 
boats returned, having found no traces of coa\. Tanjong Putri is en¬ 
tirely formed of very high lime stone rocks, and numerous high rocky 
Islands stretch from it in a northerly direction towards Pungah, 
where there is a Siamese Raja, who exports r l in to Phiang in large 
quantities. 
On the morning of the 7th. we started from Tama and steamed 
towards Pulo Panjang. We came too on its east side, towards the 
'^ith end, and despatched all the boats. In the evening they te¬ 
amed, having found no coal. This Island is high and rocky down 
to the water’s edge, with, here and there, a small beach, sandy, but 
with a rim of coral at low water. ^ 
On the 8th. we left Pulo Panjang and steamed to the S. E. to¬ 
wards Pulo Bouton to examine that Island. On the 9th. early in 
the morning, bad weather set in from the westward with a perfect 
deluge of rain, which prevented my approaching the island so early 
as I could have wished. It cleared up a little in the Meruoon, 'which 
enabled me to run in under the N. E. end, and anehoi in 14 fathoms. 
Here is the only landing place I could see on a small sandy beach, the 
three larger Islands having steep rocks down to the water’s edge on 
which the sea was breaking heavily. Colonel Low landed here, and, 
on lus return at 7 P. M- told me he was perfectly satisfied that no 
coal could he found iff Bouton. 
On the morning of the 9th. we weighed and stood to the eastward 
between Lankawi and Pulo Trotto, and came to an anchor m 2 fa-, 
