A TRIP TG FROBOUNGGO. 
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the shoaling of the banks ; he was then a young man living at some 
of the batteries near Bankallang and saw the ships of the line sail in. 
But to return to our pilot establishment. It is maintained at 
the expense of government, and managed according to a regulation 
dated Buitenzorg 24th. January 1845, the principal features of 
which I here subjoin.* 
* No private individual shall be allowed to take a ship to sea, exeept 
when all the pilots are absent, when the Master Attendant may give 
permission to such private individual. 
No private individual may pilot a ship inwards, except there be no re¬ 
gular pilot outside. 
All ships and vessels piloted in or out by private individuals, must still 
pay half pilotage. 
Ail ships or vessels, without exception, drawing six or tnore feet, 
must pay half pilotage, even though the masters may not choose to 
take a pilot on board. 
Foreign ships, and such as sail under a foreign flag, must pay double 
pilotage. 
The pilots are considered the servants of government and consist of 
1 Head Pilot .. .. .. paid f 100 per Month 
5 Pilots of the 1st class .. .. ,, 85 „ each 
5 do. 2d. .. .. 6o „ do. 
6 Apprentices .. .. „ 35 „ do. 
14 Prau Mayangs are kept at the expense of Government, each manned 
by 2 steersmen at f 8 each and 5 sailors at fQ with 40 lb. of rice each man, 
these boats crews are natives, the Pilots and Apprentices are Europeans 
or Couniry born. The prau Mayangs are very fast boats, and carry one 
large mat sail, being also otherwise neat and clean. The stations for 
the Pilots and boats, are as follows : 
At Sourabaya .. .. .. .. 5 Pilots and 
Sidayu, close to Point Pangka .. 4 do. 
Pasuruan for the eastern entrances .. 2 do. 
The Tariff of whole Pilotage is as follows 
7 Boats 
5 
2 
6 feet draught f 20. 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
inches, 
has to 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
23.50 
27. 
30 . 
33. 
38.50 
44. 
13 feet draught f 49.50}' 20 feet draught f 88 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
55 
eo.50 
66 . 
71.50 
77. 
82.50 
21 
22 
23 
24 
do 
do 
do 
do 
99. 
110 
132 
176 
with a proportionate 
change for intermediate 
for every quarter of a foot above the draught of 24 feet, f 15 extra 
be paid.—with a draft of only 18 feet of water, under the most 
favorable circumstances, it may be considered superfluous to have ex¬ 
tended the tariff to 24 feet, and further more have made a provision 
of f 15 for every quarter of a foot beyond that measure. To suspect, 
however, our worthy law-givers of such a piece of thoughtlessness, would 
be to do an injustice to their discernment. Large ships, which must take 
all their cargo at Sourabaya, may on application to the Resident, obtain 
the favor of being allowed to go over the bank, and lie there to complete 
the remainder of their lading. The pilotage on such ships is calculated 
not on the shallow draft at which they are forced to cross the bank, but on 
the feet they draw when loaded outside, with nothing but the deep sea 
before them. Hence the necessity of such a comprehensive tariff, based 
