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searches at Banda and Java only a smaller winch with 300 Meters 
of wire. But even if the “Amboina” with its whole outfit had 
been at disposal here, it would hardly have been possible to work 
to any extent outside these islands, partly on account of the rapid 
increase of the depth here, partly on account of the weather being 
now (June) rather rough. 
It has been pointed out that the whole of the Banda group is 
really only one huge volcano, the islands representing the remnants 
Fig. 3. Banda, the inner group of Islands. Depths in fathoms. 
of three different crater walls, viz. an inner one formed by Lontor, Pi¬ 
sang and Kapal, a second indicated by Roen and Rozengain and a third, 
outer one by the islands Ay, Sowangi and the submerse Rosengain 
rilf^), a striking parallel to the Tengger mountains on East Java 
(with the celebrated Bromo volcano). To anybody who has seen 
both Banda and the Tengger mountains the parallel must appear 
evident. Moreover, I can adduce a faet, hitherto unobserved, which 
1) The fig. 3 represents only the inner group of islands; as for the outer 
ones, mentioned above, I may refer to the map in G. F. Tydeman’s 
“Hydrographic Results of the Siboga Expedition”. Siboga Expeditié III 
1903. PI. XIII. p. 43. 
