384 geographical description of the island of banka. 
tailed description of a portion of it will follow in the mineralogical 
account of this part of the island. 
At no great distance from the eastern appendage of Manumbing, 
several low hills extend in the same direction, forming an interrupt¬ 
ed range : the first of these, next to Kukus, is the hill Murat, which 
is followed by Gunung Ketukul , and, several miles further eastward, 
by Gunung Panjang, 
Several other long extended ranges of low hills occur in the east¬ 
ern parts of this division o£ the island, whose situation is not yet ac¬ 
curately determined: those I noticed at a considerable distance are 
the hills Ass dm. Sing gin and Pdnddn of the natives ; besides nu- 
incious less considerable elevations, which will be mentioned in the 
Journal in the accounts of the districts inhabited by the mountain 
people. 
The interior parts of this western portion of Banka are inhabited 
by the original race of the island, commonly called mountain people. 
Their chief retreats or villages to the south and west of Minto have 
been mentioned above. The other districts they inhabit are that of 
Pisang between the mountain Manumbing in the west and Ma- 
rdss in the east; and that of Kutto-waringin, comprized between the 
mountain Harass in the north, the discharge of the Mendu river in 
the south, and the districts of Mar&wang and Pangk&l-pinang in the 
cast, the former is subdivided into the smaller districts of Pungur, 
Ushering, Suk-kouw, Ketdppe and Empdng , and the latter into 
Hi oso of Deppd, Dshuruk , Grungdng , Kedialu , Nyalouw , Bakung, 
Marass, Sekd, and DsUempuru, Their relative situation, as far as I 
was enabled to determine, will be pointed out on the map, and their 
extent of population, importance and mode of government, in the 
account of the original inhabitants. 
The Northern Division of Bdnka comprizes that portion of the 
island which is situated to the north of a line extended from the dis¬ 
charge of the river of Karapak in a south-east direction, along the 
foot of the mountain of Mar&ss, to the source of Maraw&ng river, 
to its discharge. Part of the western and the northern and eastern 
coasts of this division are bounded by that part of the southern ex- 
