settled herewith.”  The Chinese author writes:  “The mountains [of Lambri] produce the fragrant wood called Hsiang-chen Hsiang.”  Mr. Groeneveldt remarks (l.c. p. 143) that this “is the name of a fragrant wood, much used as incense, but which we have not been able to determine.  Dr. Williams says it comes from Sumatra, where it is called laka-wood, and is the product of a tree to which the name of Tanarius major is given by him.  For different reasons, we think this identification subject to doubt.”

Captain M.J.C.  Lucardie mentions a village called Lamreh, situated at Atjeh, near Tungkup, in the xxvi.  Mukim, which might be a remnant of the country of Lameri. (Merveilles de l’Inde, p. 235.)—­H.C.]

(De Barros, Dec.  III.  Bk.  V. ch. i.; Elliot, I. 70; Cathay, 84, seqq.; Pegol. p. 361; Pauthier, p. 605.)

NOTE 2.—­Stories of tailed or hairy men are common in the Archipelago, as in many other regions.  Kazwini tells of the hairy little men that are found in Ramni (Sumatra) with a language like birds’ chirping.  Marsden was told of hairy people called Orang Gugu in the interior of the Island, who differed little, except in the use of speech, from the Orang utang.  Since his time a French writer, giving the same name and same description, declares that he saw “a group” of these hairy people on the coast of Andragiri, and was told by them that they inhabited the interior of Menangkabau and formed a small tribe.  It is rather remarkable that this writer makes no allusion to Marsden though his account is so nearly identical (L’Oceanie in L’Univers Pittoresque, I. 24.) [One of the stories of the Merveilles de l’Inde (p. 125) is that there are anthropophagi with tails at Lulu bilenk between Fansur and Lameri.—­H.C.] Mr. Anderson says there are “a few wild people in the Siak country, very little removed in point of civilisation above their companions the monkeys,” but he says nothing of hairiness nor tails.  For the earliest version of the tail story we must go back to Ptolemy and the Isles of the Satyrs in this quarter; or rather to Ctesias who tells of tailed men on an Island in the Indian Sea.  Jordanus also has the story of the hairy men.  Galvano heard that there were on the Island certain people called Daraque Dara (?), which had tails like unto sheep.  And the King of Tidore told him of another such tribe on the Isle of Batochina.  Mr. St. John in Borneo met with a trader who had seen and felt the tails of such a race inhabiting the north-east coast of that Island.  The appendage was 4 inches long and very stiff; so the people all used perforated seats.  This Borneo story has lately been brought forward in Calcutta, and stoutly maintained, on native evidence, by an English merchant.  The Chinese also have their tailed men in the mountains above Canton.  In Africa there have been many such stories, of some of which an account will be found in the Bulletin de la Soc. de Geog. ser.  IV. tom. iii. p. 31.  It was a story among mediaeval Mahomedans that the members of the Imperial House of Trebizond were endowed with short tails, whilst mediaeval Continentals had like stories about Englishmen, as Matthew Paris relates.  Thus we find in the Romance of Coeur de Lion, Richard’s messengers addressed by the “Emperor of Cyprus":—­