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Wine is made out of the flowers of the cocoanuttree ; the flowers of 

 this tree are more than three feet long and as large as a man 's arm, these 

 are cut and the juice is collected and made into wine , which is sweet and 

 intoxicating. 



Of this T'ang dynasty we possess two histories ; the first , quoted just now , 

 was considered defective and so au other compilatiou was made from more abundant 

 materials and called the New history of the T'ang dynasty. lts account of Java 

 gives move details than the Old history and it will be ohserved that the name Djava 

 had already begun to supplant that of Kaling. 



New history of the T'ang dynasty (618 — 906). 

 Book 222. part 2. 



Ka-ling is also called Djava (*), it is situated in the southern ocean, 

 at the east of Sumatra and at the west of Bali. At its south it lias the sea 

 and towards the north lies Cambodja. 



The people make fortifications of wood and even the largest houses 

 are covered with palmleaves. They have couches of ivory and mats of the 

 outer skin of bamboo. 



The land produces tortoise-shell , gold and silver, rhinoceros-horns and 

 ivory. The country is very rich; there is a cavern from which salt water 

 bubbles up spontaneously. They make wine of the hanging flowers of the 

 cocoapalm, when they drink of it, they become rapidly drunk. They have 

 letters and are acquainted with astronomy. In eating they do not use spoons 

 or chopsticks. 



In this country there are poisonous girls; when one lias intercour se 

 with them, he gets painful ulcers and dies, but his body does not decay. 



The king lives in the town of Djava (Dj apa) ( 2 ), but his ancestor Ki-yen 

 ( 3 ) had lived more to the east at the town Pa-lu-ka-si ( !l ). On different sides 

 there are twenty eight small countries, all acknowledging the supremacy of 

 Djava. There are thirty two high ministers and the Da-tso-kan-hiung ( 5 ) is 

 the first of them. 



JJÏX ^5c or Ril :i? i koth re P resen ting' the sound Djava, Djapa or Djapo. 





lic 1 Ha- V$ tv? • ^is P^ ace mus t remain unidentified. 



~hr ^|£ jjffr 5? t We are unable to guess, what may have been the original word. 



