[Mr. C.O.  Blagden, in a paper on the Mediaeval Chronology of Malacca (Actes du XI’e Cong.  Int.  Orient.  Paris, 1897), writes (p. 249) that “if Malacca had been in the middle of the 14th century anything like the great emporium of trade which it certainly was in the 15th, Ibn Batuta would scarcely have failed to speak of it.”  The foundation of Malacca by Sri Iskandar Shah in 1252, according to the Sejarah Malayu “must be put at least 125 years later, and the establishment of the Muhammadan religion there would then precede by only a few years the end of the 14th century, instead of taking place about the end of the 13th, as is generally supposed” (p. 251). (Cf. G.  Schlegel, Geog.  Notes, XV.)—­H.C.]

Mr. Logan supposes that the form Malayu-r may indicate that the Malay language of the 13th century “had not yet replaced the strong naso-guttural terminals by pure vowels.”  We find the same form in a contemporary Chinese notice.  This records that in the 2nd year of the Yuen, tribute was sent from Siam to the Emperor.  “The Siamese had long been at war with the Maliyi or MALIURH, but both nations laid aside their feud and submitted to China.” (Valentyn, V. p. 352; Crawford’s Desc.  Dict. art. Malacca; Lassen, IV. 541 seqq.; Journ.  Ind.  Archip. V. 572, II. 608-609; De Barros, Dec.  II. 1. vi. c. 1; Comentarios do grande Afonso d’Alboquerque, Pt.  III. cap. xvii.; Couto, Dec.  IV. liv. ii.; Wade in Bowring’s Kingdom and People of Siam, I. 72.)

[From I-tsing we learn that going from China to India, the traveller visits the country of Shih-li-fuh-shi (Cribhoja or simply Fuh-shi = Bhoja), then Mo-louo-yu, which seems to Professor Chavannes to correspond to the Malaiur of Marco Polo and to the modern Palembang, and which in the 10th century formed a part of Cribhodja identified by Professor Chavannes with Zabedj. (I-tsing, p. 36.) The Rev. S. Beal has some remarks on this question in the Merveilles de l’Inde, p. 251, and he says that he thinks “there are reasons for placing this country [Cribhoja], or island, on the East coast of Sumatra, and near Palembang, or, on the Palembang River.”  Mr. Groeneveldt (T’oung Pao, VII. abst. p. 10) gives some extracts from Chinese authors, and then writes:  “We have therefore to find now a place for the Molayu of I-tsing, the Malaiur of Marco Polo, the Malayo of Alboquerque, and the Tana-Malayu of De Barros, all which may be taken to mean the same place.  I-tsing tells us that it took fifteen days to go from Bhoja to Molayu and fifteen days again to go from there to Kieh-ch’a.  The latter place, suggesting a native name Kada, must have been situated in the north-west of Sumatra, somewhere near the present Atjeh, for going from there west, one arrived in thirty days at Magapatana; near Ceylon, whilst a northern course brought one in ten days to