MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES &C. 
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On the. 15th. December following, he determined on passing to 
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Katigan, for which a land journey of nine days would be necessary. 
Since Dr. Schwaner in leaving the Kahayan river would be cut off 
from all communication with Banjarmassing, there is no further pos¬ 
sibility of receiving later tidings of him from any other place than 
Pontianak itself. 
These tidings however will be delivered by himself, for while we 
write this, he has just arrived at Batavia, after having completed the 
second part of his undertaking, the reaching of Pontianak overland, 
in the following number we hope to communicate more particulars 
respecting his journey. In the meantime we congratulate Dr. 
Schwaner, science, and the Government, on the completion of this 
dangerous journey. He is the first who has had the fortune to reach 
from Coti across through the island of Pontianak. Our readers 
know the attempt of the meritorious Major G. Muller, who in An-* 
gust 1825, ascended the river Coti in order to reach by this way the 
opposite side of the mountain chain, and to proceed thence to the 
west coast, but who was murdered in a dreadful manner, an event of 
which the circumstances are not yet fully known. Dr. Schwaner will 
be able to throw a new light on this. The skull of the unfortunate 
Muller is still preserved amongst the people who murdered him. 
Dr< Schwaner in vain offered a considerable sum for it to the owner, 
