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Between 827 and 835 they came again to court, bringing tribute. 

 Between 860 and 873 they sent an envoy to present female mnsicians. 



Witli respect to the name of Kaling , found in tlie two preceding extracts, we 

 have to observe that the Hindoo settlers in Java gave the name of Kling or Kalinga 

 to the part of India from which. they had come. Accordingly they called themselves men 

 of Kling and the Chinese again bestowed tliis appellation on their adopted country. 

 This circumstauce may be another proof for what we ad vaneed on Chinese intercourse 

 with the archipelago on page 2 : the Chinese made the acquaintance of the Java-Hiiidoo's 

 in China and called their country by the name of Kling, but wheu they began to 

 visit this country themselves to any extent , which we think was not the case untill 

 after the first decades of this Tang dynasty , they learned its correct name and called 

 it Java. 



In Hagemau's History of Java we read that the first Hindoo settlement was 

 Mendang, in the district called Rembang now, and that, 500 years after Christ , the seat 

 of government was removed to the mountains Diang. This agrees perfectly with our 

 text : the mountaiu-district where the king often goes tu, may be the Diang; the 

 Chinese writer calls it Lang-pi-ya and this first syllable, Lang, might be taken by a 

 Chinese as a sufficiënt equivalent for Diang. The town of Djava would then be 

 Japara , of which we know that it lias been an important port in times of old. It is 

 not probable however , if the name was Japara at that time , that the Chinese would 

 have left out the last syllable in their transcription and therefore we think it advisa- 

 ble not to insist upon the above identification. 



Lastly we see that Java had the reputation of being a powerful country, 

 highly organized and with a certain amount of civilization. 



History of the Sung dynasty (960-1279). Book 489. 



Djava (*) is situated in tlie sonthern ocean. Going from the capital 

 to the east, one comes to the sea in a month, and from here it takes a 

 ship half a month to go to Pulo Condore. On the west the sea is at a 

 distance of forty five days. On the south it is three days to the sea and 

 from there five days sailing to the Tazi ( 2 ). On the north the distance 

 from the capital to the sea is five days and embarking there, it takes fifteen 

 days to go to Borneo, fifteen days more bring one to the East-coast of 

 Sumatra, seven days more to Kora ( 3 ) and lastly seven days again to 



O y^ "£*£ , Arabs on the west-coast of Sumatra v. pag. 14. 

 O "jij j|g , the north-western part of the Malay peninsula. 



