AND ISLANDS OF JOHORE. 
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cutters liut beneath a spreading 1 tree. Some fine logs of Bintangor, a 
tree in much repute for masts, lay on the beach. At the point there 
is a small sandy peninsula covered with vegetation which must be 
insulated at high water. The Malays say the name is derived from 
this, the point having leaped (lompdtj into the sea. On these 
beaches I collected a number of shells, but when I separated from 
the gunboat the mat work boxes containing them were mixed with 
Others containing rocks, and the shells were consequently broken. 
The large shell of a kind of crab was very abundant. The Malays 
say that the tiger preys upon it, but I had no means of judging whe¬ 
ther this is fact or fable.* 
From I. Lompatan to T. Mantigi the coast is a succession of 
long sandy euvves, broken occasionally by low rocks. At Tanjong 
Balau or Bulo it is more elevated than elsewhere. Between this 
Point and T. Mantigi are Sungei Tingar and its Teloh, Tanjong 
Klfsa, Teloh Lundang Bakau and Teloh LundangWy in which there 
is a well called Ay dr Cha. The name does not speak favorably for 
the water. Between T. Klisa and T. Mantigi many rocks project 
from the beach. Tanjong Mantigi is a projecting promontory, with 
rocky extremities as usual, and smaller rocks scattered along the sandy 
beach between the points. On rounding it the coast is seen to retire 
in a southerly direction thus forming a sharp angle with the N.E. 
face. Within, a second point advances, on the northern side of which 
is the mouth of the Sidili Kichi. These points appear to be the 
extremities of short parallel hill ranges. When we round the pro¬ 
montory of Mantigi the coast assumes a new character. Hitherto it 
has been quite open and exposed and consequently free from man¬ 
groves. Between Mantigi and the next point to the north, T. Tabal, 
the coast retires, forming the small and shallow bay of Sidili, so called 
from the two rivers of that name, (Sungei Sidili Kichi and S. Sidili 
Ldsat,) which enter it at its northern and southern angles. The 
north and south sides of this bay are rocky ; the back is a long flat 
Subsequently to this voyage I discovered, on the N.E. point of Battam 
and within the Singapore Strait on Pulo Sambo, numerous fragments of 
pumice so much resembling some kinds of decayed coral until examined 
closely, that I have no doubt i have frequently passed it unnoticed on other 
beaches. Ihe Malays, who call it Bdtu timbul (floating stone,! say that 
it is found floating in the China Sea and scattered over the beaches of the 
eastern coast of Johore. 1 thought it might have been derived from the 
gieat Iomboro eruption, but JVI. Zollinger, who lately visited Sambawii, 
mlormed me that the Tomboro pumice is blackish, whereas this is whitish, 
and that the currents could not have brought it here. It is probably there¬ 
fore of Philippine origin. 
