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and 200 soldiers went with him as an escort. On the 1 9th Tuhan Pindjaya 

 secretly left our soldiers and attacked them , by which the whole party came 

 to grief. 



On the 24th the army went back, taking with it the children and 

 officers of Hadji Katang, altogether more than a hnndred persons; they 

 bronght also a map of the country, a register of the population and a let- 

 ter in golden characters presented by the king. 



For further particulars see the account of Shih-pi. 



Account of Shih-pi. History of the Yuan dynasty. Book 162. 



Shih-pi, whose literary name was Chün-tso, and who was also called 

 Tarlmn (*) , was a man from Po-yeh, district Li-chou, clepartment Pau-ting, 

 province Chih-li. 



(The historian first describes his military career and , arriving at that part of 

 it wliicli may interest us goes on 'as follows) : 



When the emperor Shih-tsu (Kublai) wantecl to subdue Java, he said to 

 Shih-pi: //Among my officers there are few who have my full conficlence, 

 therefore 1 want to entrust this affair of Java to you." The other replied: 

 //If the Emperor deigns to command his servant , how could he venture to 

 be afraid for his person." 



In the year 1292 he was made commander of the expedition to Java, 

 whilst Ike Mese and Kau Hsing were appointed to assist him. The Emperor 

 gave him a hundred and fifty stampecl badges and two hundred pieces of 

 sük, in order to reward those who made themselves meritorious. In the 1 2th 

 month he joined the other troops with 5000 men and departed from Ch'üan- 

 chou; the wind was strong and the sea very rough , so that the ships rolled 

 heavily and the soldiers could not eat for many days. They passed the Sea of 

 the Seven Islands ( 2 ) (the Paracels Islands) and the Long Reef ( 3 ) (Macclesfield 

 Bank) ; they passed the [land of the Giau-chi and Champa , and in the first 

 month of the next year they came to the Eastern Tung Islands ( 4 ) (Natuna?), 



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