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in the Sri Bhoja pg and orr нин of the Archipelago 
for chewing with nutmegs, cloves Barus camphor, for the 
purpose of Tx "e mouth партав Pin-lang is of course 
the Malay word pinang, areca n 
n I Tsing's time, it seems therefore that the Malay page 
par excellence was in Central Sumatra, a fact agreeing very w 
with native Malay tradition on the subject, which ‘derives the 
origin of many of the Malays of the Peninsula from the old Cen- 
tral чы State of мена 
etymological signification of the как паше Malayu 
Las bon a subject of much dispute. І Tsin 
any additional io upon it; but he makes 1 quite clear tbat 
the word en in his time a [оса significance, and denoted the 
particu ЙА? region froin which a large part of the oir of the 
modern Tanah Malayu love to trace their origin, 
C. О, Blagden. 
The Putri Gunong Ledang. 
(Farry Princess or Mr. OPHIR.) 
The following extract from an essay d by a Malacca 
Chinese boy may be of interest to readers of the ena of the 
Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. I give the boy’s 
own words. 
The aborigines of Malacca used to believe that Mt. Ophir 
was a sacred mountain. Mt. Ophir is also believed to be so 
by the Malays, as well as by most of the Strait-born Chinese. 
Since many I ago, neither Malays nor Chinese have ever 
reached the of the mountain, ie pt as our ancestors say, 
of the Europeans ‘have been ther e, es the natives have not 
believed it. It is said that cene is a fairy who takes charge of 
the sacred mountain. In the morning, as the sun rises, the 
fairy is а beautiful girl playing near her well-built hut. At 
noon, as the sun is right over our head, the girl аи into а 
maiden ; ; and in the evening, а i rhe sun sets, the maiden becomes 
an old woman. The same thing happens every da чан 
