It was called Port Cornwallis; but was abandoned in 1796, being found terribly unhealthy.

It was a pity, for it afforded good shelter when the northeast monsoon was blowing, and partially so from the southwest monsoon.

No doubt it could have been made more healthy, if the country round had been well cleared; but it was not found to be of sufficient utility to warrant a large outlay, and the natives are so bitterly unfriendly that it would require a garrison of two or three hundred men to overawe them.

We should have been always losing life--not from open attacks, perhaps, but from their habit of crawling up, and shooting men down with their arrows." A week later, they were some seventy or eighty miles to the west of the Andaman group.

Directly the brig weathered the northernmost point of Sumatra, the course had been laid more to the west, so as to avoid the dangerous inside passage.