. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation. etch, which, being entangled in the rail-ing of the gallery, swept away at once a great part of thejiaiustrade. In the rapidity with which the rope ran out, acoil of it got round my ami, but just as I was forced amongthe Avreck, the shark, by darting back to the surface, slack-ened the rope sufliciently to enable me to disengage my armand to get clear. Greatly as I was alaimed at this accident,a poor Ja\ anese
. A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. To which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation. etch, which, being entangled in the rail-ing of the gallery, swept away at once a great part of thejiaiustrade. In the rapidity with which the rope ran out, acoil of it got round my ami, but just as I was forced amongthe Avreck, the shark, by darting back to the surface, slack-ened the rope sufliciently to enable me to disengage my armand to get clear. Greatly as I was alaimed at this accident,a poor Ja\ anese appeared to be still more so, w^ho happenedat that moment to be astern of the ship, paddling his canoewith a load of fruit and vegetables. His apprehension lestthe Avounded shark, in rolling and plungmg and lashing thewater with its fins and tail, should overturn his little skiff,which Avas not much larger than the animal itself, his exer-tions to get out of its reach, and the marks of terror thatAvere visible on his countenance, struck our felloAv traA-eller,Alexander, so fi)r(;ihly that, though of momentary duration,he caught Avith his pencil a spirited sketch ; Avhich, having. THE STRAIT OF SUNDA. 163 the merit at least of being a true representation of a Javanesecanoe, with its paddle and bamboo outrigger, was consideredas not unworthy of being put into the engravers hands. Theshark being killed with a harpoon, was then hoisted upondeck and opened. The contents of its stomach formed amass of such magnitude and variety as can scarcely be con-ceived. It consisted, among other articles, of the completehead of a female buffalo, a whole calf, a quantity of entrailsand of bones, and large fragments of the upper and undershells of a considerable sized turtle. The length of the sharkwas ten feet eight inches. The Dutch have established a small fort at Anjerie point,consisting of a low earthen embankment, surrounded with apalisade of bamboo, and mounted with half a dozen four-pound
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