150 Notice of a Chinese Geographical work. [Feb. 



Pan ngai, A tang, Su mu, Mm muyin, and Mang Ma tsi nu.* Many 

 vessels from the central nation traffic there also. These islands are 

 inhabited by aboriginal natives, and the productions are the same as 

 those of Lee sung, such as deers' horns, cows' hides, nerves, and 

 flesh, Brazil wood, ebony, sandal wood, balsam, yellow wax, swallows' 

 nests, bichu de mar, and various other things. To sail thither you 

 must proceed from Lee sung to Li tsi pha, and thence southerly. 

 From Loe sung to Pan ngdi are ten keng ; to A tang, twenty-three keng, 

 to Su mu, 24 keng ; to Man kiu tsin nu fifty-eight keng. The men 

 of these islands are very ignorant ; they comprehend nothing ; they ac- 

 cumulate no property. They require only a little cloth from the Central 

 Kingdom to cover their persons. Each tribe has its chief to protect the 

 national rights. 



South-east of these you come to Wan lao kao,f and Ting ki i. These 

 two kingdoms are situated on the magnetic rhumb tzi.% The natives 

 and the various productions are similar [to the preceding] . The dis- 

 tance by sea from Lee sung to Wan lao kao, is 1 74 keng. To Ting h 

 i' it is 210 keng. 



From Lee sung due south is a great mountain, the general name of 

 which in Wu la yu is the Great hill of Si li.§ To the east of 

 this hill is Su lo.\\ In ancient times it never paid tribute ; but in the 

 sixth year of Tung ching* there arrived tribute via Man. j* To the west 



* In the map prefixed to the History of the Philippine Islands, by Martinez de 

 Zuniga, there are 5 or 6 large islands south of Lucon, amongst which only one or 

 two seem to have aboriginal names, namely Panay [Pan ngai], Zebu [Sumu?~\ 

 These are no doubt the islands here spoken of. 



f Moluccas ? 



% 15o S. of S. E. — or more properly, E. 55<> S. 



§ M. Klaproth has I think misunderstood this passage. He makes it — " De Liu 

 soung droite au sud, est une grande montagne ; elle n'a pas de nom general, mats 

 elle est extremement etendue." The mistake rises from the first syllable of the word 

 Wu lai yu, (Malay) being taken in its literal acceptation, " not " but how the remain- 

 der of the sentence is construed as above I do not know. The same mistake occurs 

 further on. The place alluded to must be in the northern part of Borneo. 



|| Su lo must be the Sooloo Archipelago of our maps, between Borneo and Min- 

 danao. 



* 1729 A. D. 



•f i. e. Fo kein, 



