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of this is Ki li man ; and again to the west is Wan Idi ;* these constituted 

 in ancient times the kingdom of Pho lo. Proceeding yet further west, 

 is the great hill of Chce ho tsiu la, and to the south of that, Ma shin.f 

 The extent of these hills has never been ascertained : their interior has 

 never been trodden by man. They produce wild beasts, whose very 

 kinds are unnamed. Su lo, Ki li man, and Wan Idi, are three king- 

 doms all lying in the southerly rhumbs from Lee sung ; and to reach 

 Chce ko tsiu lo you must proceed south from Tsi chcen yang in Yce nan, 

 passing Kioan Icen, and Chd phan, and thence easterly, 188 keng, which 

 brings you to Chce ko tsiu lo. To reach Ma shin also you must go by 

 Chd phan, and Kd Id pd, and thence a navigation of 340 keng. From 

 Hea man, via Lee sung to Su lu, the distance does not exceed one hun- 

 dred and ten keng. 



Again, to the eastward the sea separates a region named Mang kid shi. 

 From Ma shin to Mang kdi shi,% the distance is twenty-seven keng. 

 Further east is Ting ki i,§ and on the north-east is Wan lao kao and Su lu. 



Ki li man, Wan la kao, and Chce ko tsiu lo are generally called in 

 Wu la yu,\\ O fan. The natives are very fond of copper gongs; and 

 all their utensils are of copper. They dwell in huts along the banks of 

 rivulets. Their manners are rude. They never remove their swords 

 from their persons,* and are very dextrous in the use of the spear. 

 Whenever it draws blood, death follows. They dress in single pieces of 

 printed or coloured cloth. The merchants of that country travel to and 

 fro in a kind of small boat called mang kea. They proceed in com- 

 pany and divide the profit with each other. 



The produce of these countries consists of pearls, camphor, tortoise 

 shell, bichu de mar, birds' nests, ebony, sandal wood, sea weed, ratans, 



* Borneo, called also Brunai on our maps. 

 f Banjermassin ? 



X Macassar ; more properly Mancassar, I believe. 

 § New Guinea ? ? 



|| Malayan. Klaproth again misapprehends the term : — " ces pays ne sont pas 

 connus sons une denomination generate," — is his version of this passage. 



* M. Klaproth translates this passage, " Leurs corps resiste aux coups de sabre !" 

 a translation the absurdity of which is self-evident. The meaning is simply that 



they sleep with their creeses. The word he translates " resiste,'* ftqal li, means 

 to remove: and were it not so, the word shin, body, is in the wrong position, 

 syntactically, as the complement of a verb active. 



