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Updated: September 8, 2025
"We have passed through the Straits of Banca, and are crossing the Molucca passage," said Mr Thudicumb, of whom I asked whereabouts we were. "The captain proposes making for Ternate, which belongs to the Dutch. We may hope there to get new masts at all events, it is the nearest place which we can reach with the wind as it is at present, and have any hope of getting the ship put to rights."
If there is more than one person in the grass-boat, which is a very small and unhooded banca, which the natives use for carrying small quantities of grass for horses, &c., the ducks are apt to take the alarm, although I have sometimes been successful in getting near them with an Indian paddling the boat.
I well remember two gentlemen in Batavia, who could scarcely lift their hands to their heads at these periods, though twenty years had elapsed since they had had this terrible fever. The Dutch troops still continue to suffer severely from this cause; and to be sent to Banca from Java, is looked upon as the hardest lot that can befall a soldier.
The alder pole was jerking, quivering in his hands; the leather line was taut. "A strike, so help me! A big one!" He sprang to his feet, and, unmindful of the swaying of the banca, began to play the fish. Beatrice, her eyes a-sparkle, turned to watch; the paddle lay forgotten in her hands. "Here he comes! Oh, damn!" shouted Stern. "If I only had a reel now "
It is generally discovered in the alluvial soil of low grounds, where it is known as stream tin, because it has been washed by the agency of water from the rocks in which it was originally embedded mixed with sand and gravel. Tin is also found in the island of Banca, in the Indian Archipelago, in Bohemia and Saxony, Chili and Mexico. Mercury is a rare metal.
In the better banca were a harp, guitars, accordeons, and a buffalo horn; while, in the other boat, a little fire had been lighted in an improvised stove in order that tea, coffee and salabat might be prepared for the light breakfast. "The women sit here; the men, there," said the mothers on stepping into the banca. "Sit still and don't move, or we will be capsized."
"There, there he is!" cried a number of voices, and the balls from their rifles whistled again. The falúa and the other banca took up the chase. A light track of foam marked his course, every moment leading farther and farther away from Ibarra's banca, which drifted along as if abandoned.
"Come, let's be going," spoke the man, his voice lowered in spite of himself, the awe of the Infinite Unknown upon him. "We can eat in the banca on the way. With the tide behind us, as it will be, we ought to get home by morning. And I'll be mighty glad never to see this place again!"
Germany's road through Italy was traced by the mistaken policy of the French Government which, by a systematic endeavour to depreciate Italian consols and other securities, drove Crispi to Berlin, where his suit for help was heard, the Banca Commerciale conceived, and commercial arrangements concluded which opened the door to the influx of German wares, men and political ideals.
At the eastern extremity of Sumatra, and separated from it by a strait about fifteen miles wide, is the small rocky island of Banca, celebrated for its tin mines. One of the Dutch residents there sent some collections of birds and animals to Leyden, and among them were found several species distinct from those of the adjacent coast of Sumatra.
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