an island in the Asiatic Archipelago, situated between Lat. 3° and 4° S. and Long. 126° and 127° E. It is of an oval shape, and may be estimated at seventy-five miles in length by thirty-eight in average breadth. This island is fruitful, producing large quantities of rice, sago, oranges, lemons, citrons, cocoa-nuts, bananas, and pine-apples; also the caipet tree, from the leaves of which the caipet oil is procured. Fine timber grows on this island, and many kinds of beautiful wood, fit for inlaying; besides black and white ebony, and the palm and the teak trees. Ships may be supplied here with rice, cattle, and other refreshments; and the woods abound with wild boars, goats, and deer, and, among the latter, the babyrusa, or true hog-deer, as its name implies. The natives consist of two races, the aborigines, who live in the interior of the island among inaccessible mountains, and of whom little is known; and the Moors or Mahometans, who inhabit the northern coast, and acknowledge the authority of the Dutch. The Chinese trade here for cabinet woods and different species of dye-woods. At Cajelli bay on its north side there is good anchorage, and at the east end is a Dutch station.