A voyage from Calcutta to the Mergui Archipelago, lying on the East side of the Bay of Bengal / [Thomas Forrest].
- Thomas Forrest
- Date:
- 1792
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A voyage from Calcutta to the Mergui Archipelago, lying on the East side of the Bay of Bengal / [Thomas Forrest]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![keep it ead, which diredion, or near it, will guide the {hip fafely pad a fhoal into the road, which is {hallow, a good way off, but the ground is good. A view of Natali Hill is given, lying in the road, in 44- fathoms, mud, Natali Point bearing SSE, and the outer end of Tammong IJland bearing S 4- E. Behind Tammong there is a very good harbour; its approach from Natali Road is fafe ; looking out for certain fhoals laid down in charts publifhed by Mr. Dal- rymple, the harbour’s outlet to the fouthward is alfo fafe. I mud obferve that in Natali Road\ when it blows hard from the wedward it breaks in $ fathoms; therefore, a vedel ihould be ready to run to Tammong IJland; if {he lies in 54 fathoms it will be better than 5> and 6 dill better, the vedel will then have more room to get off a lee Ihore. A fhoal lies near Natali Road\ on which a Bombay fhip, called the Shaftfbrook, was lod, about the year 1771 i ihe was very rich, being loaded with filk. There is alfo good riding behind an idand off Ayerbongou, formerly a Dutch fettlement, but now deferted. About Ayerbongou the hills make an agreeable ap¬ pearance, being, many of them, covered with grafs [lallang) very uncommon in Malay countries, where wood almod entirely has poffedion of the ground. Continuing on to the SE, and leaving Pulo Battooj by Malays called Pinge, and three fmall Blands to the fouthward, the navigator will find behind the Ticoo and Priaman Iflands (as has-been faid in a note in page 38) excellent {belter for. the larged {hips, fmooth water, and good holding-ground; there is alfo great plenty of provifions, which is univerfal in Dutch fettle* ments, their police is fo good. You now pafs Mount Ophir, the high- ed land on the coad: it is of a conical fhape, and between 2 and 3 miles perpendicular height. Having made the idand Too]00 (Seventh Idand), (being, the feventh feen to the northward from .P a dang Hill) haul in for the main land, and anchor if dark ; then keep on with a good look-out, and you may deer for Padang Head, of which I give a view, bearing S by E, from 30. fathoms, mud, 8 or 10 miles off, by computation; keep Pulo Pifang (Plantain Idand) on the left hand, going into the road of Padang, and anchor behind it; here you get excellent refrediments very reafonable ; there is alfo a view of Padang Head, coming from the fouthward, with vedels in the road,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30451619_0119.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
