. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. CHAPTER XXIX. SOUTH-EAST JAVA—BECALMED OFF ANJER—THE SERICA—K WILD RACE—SOUTH-EAST trades. f^/!?^Ip^HKKK are heaps of islands at the south endl^^/?lMn^ of the China Sea, especially round about theCaspar Straits. What with them and thereefs and shoals, the navigation appeared tome to be rather embarrassing. Mr. Harveyshowed me the chart one day, and it seemedalmost impossible to get through such a labyrinth ; wedid, though, and reached Anjer without mishap. Theship was becalmed for a few hour
. Spunyarn and spindrift : a sailor boy's log of a voyage out and home in a china tea-clipper. CHAPTER XXIX. SOUTH-EAST JAVA—BECALMED OFF ANJER—THE SERICA—K WILD RACE—SOUTH-EAST trades. f^/!?^Ip^HKKK are heaps of islands at the south endl^^/?lMn^ of the China Sea, especially round about theCaspar Straits. What with them and thereefs and shoals, the navigation appeared tome to be rather embarrassing. Mr. Harveyshowed me the chart one day, and it seemedalmost impossible to get through such a labyrinth ; wedid, though, and reached Anjer without mishap. Theship was becalmed for a few hours in Sunda Straits,and a boat full of natives rowed off and came had monkeys, Java sparrows, cocoa-nuts, bananas,plantains, pine-apples, jagghery, and all sorts of thingsto sell. Jagghery is lovely stuff; it is a kind of sugar, mouldedby the natives in half cocoa-nut shells. Baby and Ibought a lot. The head man in the boat told us that SUNDA STRAITS. 345 the Serica and the Ariel had not passed Anjer yet, sowe are first ship so far, Weve given them the go-by, Tommy, said the cap-tain, laughing, and cl
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