378 T3B0GBAPIIICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND OF BANKA. 
A new establishment for the various duties of government in this 
part of the island, has lately been formed on the eminence about 
half a mile above the town. 
The former and present condition of the mines of Minto, will be 
described below. 
Several small villages and hamlets are dispersed through the wilds 
in various directions from Minto : the chief of these are at Ddrdt- 
lanut, Kddur and the hill of Duldng-pitsha. Ddrdt-lamd consists 
of the dwellings of a number of mountain people, (by which name 
the original inhabitants are usually distinguished) who formerly 
sought a retreat in this part of the island ■, from the southern districts 
they are united under one chief called Tje-wdng* and live in their 
usual manner, separately dispersed through the country north-west 
of Minto, on a rivulet of the same name, towards the extremity of 
the peninsula. Duldng-pitsha lies west, and Kadur nearly north 
from Minto, these both contain a small number of families. 
The river of Minto-Tdivdr rises in this part of the country by 
three springs, called Sutigie Darat-lama, Sungie Bald and Sungie 
Deyang. A large settlement of Buginese existed formerly at Tan- 
jong Ular, containing a large number of families, and a population 
of several hundred souls. Mendshelang, Sungie Reang, Anashle 
and Beal will he mentioned in the account of the mines. 
The mines of Paldngds are situated in a direction north inclin¬ 
ing to the east, at a distance of about 10 miles from Minto : Rang- 
dm is a Chinese village about 4 miles to the cast, nearly half a mile 
from the shore, partly in a valley, partly on the declivities of a hill. 
It contains about 25 houses, built in the usual Chinese style and 
nearly 60 male and 30 female inhabitants. About 25 of the Chinese 
* 
of this village are miners; the rest live chiefly by horticulture and 
by the rearing of hogs, to which they pay uncommon attention, as 
they are profitably disposed of to the miners and other inhabitants of the 
neibourhood ; a few of them are fishers. A large mine is situated 
near the north-east extremity of the village which will be mentioned 
elsewhere. 
* Jcttnang? Ed. 
