themselves, by means of a deep ditch, on the land side, with its extremities embracing the port, and strengthened by bulwarks of timber.  With provisions they were supplied in abundance, particularly the finest fish.  There is no wheat, and the people live on rice.  They are without vines, but extract an excellent liquor from trees of the palm kind by cutting off a branch and applying to it a vessel which is filled in the course of a day and night.  A description is then given of the Indian or coconut.  Dragoian, a name bearing some though not much resemblance to Indragiri on the eastern coast; but I doubt his having proceeded so far to the southward as that river.  The customs of the natives are painted as still more atrocious in this district.  When any of them are afflicted with disorders pronounced by their magicians to be incurable their relations cause them to be suffocated, and then dress and eat their flesh; justifying the practice by this argument, that if it were suffered to corrupt and breed worms, these must presently perish, and by their deaths subject the soul of the deceased to great torments.  They also kill and devour such strangers caught amongst them as cannot pay a ransom.  Lambri might be presumed a corruption of Jambi, but the circumstances related do not justify the analogy.  It is said to produce camphor, which is not found to the southward of the equinoctial line; and also verzino, or red-wood (though I suspect benzuin to be the word intended), together with a plant which he names birci, supposed to be the bakam of the Arabs, or sappan wood of the eastern islands, the seeds of which he carried with him to Venice.  In the mountainous parts were men with tails a palm long; also the rhinoceros, and other wild animals.  Lastly, Fanfur or Fansur, which corresponds better to Campar than to the island of Panchur, which some have supposed it.  Here the finest camphor was produced, equal in value to its weight in gold.  The inhabitants live on rice and draw liquor from certain trees in the manner before described.  There are likewise trees that yield a species of meal.  They are of a large size, have a thin bark, under which is a hard wood about three inches in thickness, and within this the pith, from which, by means of steeping and straining it, the meal (or sago) is procured, of which he had often eaten with satisfaction.  Each of these kingdoms is said to have had its peculiar language.  Departing from Lambri, and steering northward from Java minor one hundred and fifty miles, they reached a small island named Necuram or Norcueran (probably Nancowry, one of the Nicobars), and afterwards an island named Angaman (Andaman), from whence, steering to the southward of west a thousand miles, they arrived at that of Zeilan or Seilam, one of the most considerable in the world.  The editions consulted are chiefly the Italian of Ramusio, 1583, Latin of Muller, 1671, and French of Bergeron, 1735, varying much from each other in the orthography of proper names.