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place Sri Bhoja, San-bo-tsai, Sarbaza, ete., as it is variously called, 
has been identified with almost absolute certainty as being $e 
ated on the Palembang river in South-eastern Sumatra ; and t 
Mo-lo-yu со сап therefore be confidently regarded as асай 
immediately to the west or north-west, that is to say about 
the middle of Decii I "Tsing ng, who stayed in the Mo-lo-yu 
country for two months ou his way to India,says that it was 
fifteen or sail from Bhoja, the capital of Sri Bhoja; and it 
must have been situated оиу under the Equator, for in 
the middle of the eighth month and in the middle of spring the 
sun cast no shadow there at noon. Moreover it was half-way 
nds) From Ka-cha ships sailed in thirty days to Nagapatana 
(Negapatam), and I Tsing himself took Tus there for Tamralipti 
(Tamluk), a port near the mouth of the 
It seems therefore that the Medica country was not at 
this time a purely inland State, but had a coast line fog the Straits 
more or less opposite to where Malacca now stan 
The language of the Moon country was thet which served 
as а lingua francain the Archipelago 
This term was derived, apparently, from the Chinese name 
Pulau Condor, on the same principle on which slaves from these 
regione are often mentioned in Chinese chronicles as K'ùn-lun 
slaves, from whatever part of the Archipelago they might have 
actually been imported, e reason seems to have been that 
the Pulau Condor people were the first of the Southern island- 
ers to come into contact with the Chinese, who afterw ards loose- 
ed Kochin sat cie ngtun 
That the language Was r чо. Malay appears from the fact 
that the “pin-lang fruit” is mentioned by 1 Tsing as being u 
