 Five days after the "Grasshopper" was bombed, a tongkang arrived which took the survivors to Singkep Island, the largest of the Lingga Islands.There they left their wounded, and Judy along with the other survivors travelled two days later on a Chinese junk to Sumatra where it was hoped that a British force remained which could take them to Sri Lanka.Upon arrival, they took the vessel up a series of rivers until they narrowed so much that the junk could not pass.