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Boja Nagara, the country about St. Nicholas Point, may have got that name froni 

 having been the „Subsistance of the land," which it implies, and affording the neces- 

 saries of life to the numerous foreign traders. Séngyang Para, literally „the Holy 

 divinity's gateway," or, as it is called in English maps „ Thawt the way," is a real 

 yateway for navigators who carae down the coast of Sumatra. Pulo liakata, which 

 Europeans have transmogrified into „ Cockatoa Island," inay be a Polynesian way of 

 pronouncing Rakla , C. 578, dyed , tinged, coloured, stained, red, of a red colour, 

 blood-vermilion The island is now-a-days rather green than red , but it is high and 

 peaked , and may in ancient times have been an active volcano , when it would merit 

 the name of red , or colour of blood. The seat of trade , in course of time , was re- 

 moved further into the Java Sea , and, before the arrival of Europeans, was established 

 at Sunda k al ap a = the Hielden depot, where subsequently the Dutch founded the present 

 town of Batavia , but which the Chinese , to this day , call Kalapa , after its ancient 

 designation. In Malay no two consonants come together, unless one of them be a 

 liquid or a nasal (CRAW r FURD"s Malay Grammar, Dissertation, page 19), thus liakata 

 may be the Malay way of pronouncing Rakta. 



Sunda Kalapa, the old name of a place not far from where the town of Batavia now 

 stands. The Chinese still call Batavia , Kalapa , after this original name , which has 

 been preserved by this people , though forgotten by even the native inhabitants of the 

 country. The supposed meaning of Sunda has been given' above, Kalapa is secret, 

 hidden , out of sight. Vide voce. And thus Sunda Kalapa may, in early times, 

 have meant a secret place of deposit or a depot for the traders from continental India, 

 to collect their goods and rendez-vous before leaving in a fleet, to proceed up the 

 coast of Sumatra, and then cross the Bay of Bengal on their way home. The Sunda 

 people have a tradition that Europeans first showed themselves at Nusa Kalapa, a small 

 island lying off the mouth of the Chidani river, and thus a little to the westward of the 

 present town of Batavia. This may have been at Onrust or one of the adjoining islands. 

 See Raffles, vol. 1, page 23 of Introduction. It is rather romarkable that this spot, 

 the mouth of the Chidani river , is still called „ Untung lama" : the prosperity of Java. 



Sundal, a prostitute, a whore, a woman of bad fame. This word is occasionally used , 

 though Lonté is more frequent. Chandala , C. 193 and 196, is most likely the etymon 

 of the Sunda and Malay word Sundal. Clough gives at page 193: Chandala is a 

 kind of generic name for a man of the lowest caste , properly an outcast , a mean , 

 low , vile fellow ; a sort of mischievous demon-like wretch , one ready to execute any 

 vile or mischievous act. 



Sundal, name of a plant with pretty, sweet, white fiower, much worn in womeiVs hair. 

 Polyanthes Tuberosa , or tuberose. Called in Malay Sundal malam or Sedap malam. 



Sun dek, inconveniently low. A place whi;h you have difficulty to pass under. Sandtk 

 amat laxoang na , that door is very inconveniently low (you cannot get in without 

 knocking your head against the lintel). 



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