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Updated: May 10, 2025
According to the information of the natives the river is navigable for sloops to a place called Panti Chermin, being eight days' sail with the assistance of the tide, and within half a day's journey by land of another named Patapahan, which boats also, of ten to twenty tons, reach in two days.
Left the Driver at 9 A.M. in the gun-boat, with the pinnace and cutter in company: a fine breeze carried us to Pulo Chermin, and nearly the whole way to Pulo Combong, where we met with the state-boat bearing the letter.
The existence of a coal-field has been traced from Labuan to the islands of Kayn-arang which words, in fact, mean coal island to the island of Chermin, and from thence to the mainland over a distance of thirty miles.
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