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Malencolen ; mool, bald, naked ; an, of the; colam, body. The land of naked 
people. 
Zabe, a town on the point of the peninsula of Malacca ; yab, death. 
ISLANDS ON THE SAME COAST. 
Bazacata, in about 18° N., now called Cheduba ; bayod, slaying ; ceadac, striking : 
the island which strikes with disease and death. 
Andaman, in lat. 14° N.—the evil island; andac, evil ; man, sin: the very abo- 
minable islands: they are called the islands of the cannibals, or anthropophagi. 
Maniole, the little Andaman island, about 12° N. ; man, sin, wickedness ; jola, 
loss, destruction: the island of wickedness and destruction ; the people here are also 
called anthropophagi. 
Baruss@, now Nicobar ; bapj, death or disease ; apacd, power : the islands of death 
or disease. 
Sabadibe, in lat. 6 N.; yabad, quarrel! ; jbe, people: the quarrelsome people. 
Jabaidii, now Sumatra ; 1s, country ; bard, of love : the rich and lovely country. 
Perimulicus sinns—the Straits of Malacca. The gulph of cruel or savage pirates ; 
plonard, a pirate, or sea robber ; mjolac, cruel, savage, beastly: pronounced Peri- 
mulac. This name is appropriate, even to this day. 
Malacca is probably derived from this word’ mjolac, cruel, savage ; 14, country. 
The cruel country. 
NAMES ON THE EASTERN COAST OF THE PENINSULA OF MALACCA. 
Thagora, in lat. 4° north; tazay, fight, battle : the place of skirmish. 
Balonga, now called Patara, in lat. 9° north: this is the same name as that of 
Barlonga, on the coast of Portugal; bapy, death, destruction; lonza, of ships. No 
doubt given for the same reason—the dangerous rocky islands on this coast, where 
many ships have been wrecked. 
Cotiaris river, the river of Cambojia—the river of boats ; coreojn, a boat builder. 
It is a singular fact, that the houses are built in this river, upon stakes, or piles, driven 
into the bottom of the shores of the river. The inhabitants communicate by boats. 
Cattigara, a little to the north of Camboja river. Whether this place had its name 
from cactazad, temptation, it is impossible to say ; but it is probable, from the pro- 
nunciation, it is the same. 
D’Anville traces the coast very little farther northward, and gives no names but 
Sinhou, which he calls Sinarum Metropolis, or the chief city of the Chinese. 
SOUTHERN COAST OF ARABIA AND ISLANDS. 
Dioscoridis insula, now called Socotora, an island in lat. 15° north, about five leagues 
from the north-east cape of Africa or Gardefan, This name indicates its fruitful- 
