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In the year 1379 the king Pa-ta-na-pa-na-lm sent envoys with tribute, 

 which was repeated next year. Some time before imperial envoys had been 

 sent to carry a seal to the king of eastern Sumatra (San-bo-tsai) (*) and 

 those of Java deluded and killed them ; the Emperor was highly incensed 

 and detained their envoys more than a month , with. the intention to punish 

 them, bnt iiltiinately they were sent back with a letter to their king, in 

 which he was reproved for what he had done. 



In the year 1381 they sent envoys, who brought as tribute 300 black 

 slaves and products of the country. The next year they brought again black 

 slaves, men and women, to the number of a hundred, eight large pearls 

 and 75000 catties of pepper. 



In the year 1393 they sent tribute and the next year again. 



When the emperor Ch'êng-tsu ascended the throne, he sent informa- 

 tion of it to this country and the next year, 1403, he sent a vice-envoy and 

 a messenger to present the king with silks and gauzes embroidered with gold. 

 When the envoys had left, the western king, Tu-ma-pan ( 2 ), sent envoys to 

 congratulate the Emperor, who again sent an eunuch and others to bestovv 

 upon the king a silver seal inlaid with gold. The king sent envoys to pre- 

 sent his thanks for this seal and offered products of his country as tribute. 



The eastern king, Put-ling-ta-hah ( 3 ), also sent envoys to court for 

 the purpose of bringing tribute and asking for a seal, and the Emperor sent 

 an officer to bring it to hiin. From this time the two kings brought trib- 

 ute both. 



In the year 1405 the eunuch Chêng Ho ( k ) was sent as a messenger 

 to this country and in the next year the two kings made war upon each 

 other; the eastern king was defeated and his kingdom destro} r ed. At that 



(') — [ -jjffl lUk , The reasou why those of Java killed the imperia! envoys, was that 



San-bo-tsai had been conqucred by Java about 1377, wlülst shortly before the sou of the last king had 

 sent envoys to China, asking the imperial investiture. A seal was brought by Chinese envoys 

 when the Javanese were already in the country and these, thinking that the Chinese wantedl o cont est 

 their newly accprired rights, killed the ambassadors. Compare account of San-bo-tsai. 



O ;gK t W* ^ÊL* Amiot and after him Schlegel (vide the latter's translat ion, Appen- 

 dix p. VIII and IX) say that Tumapan was the title of the western king or that of Padjadjaran. 

 If their assertion, for which they give no autlïórity, be correct, might it not be tliat the kings of 

 western Java, who had come from the old country of Tumapel in thè eastern part of the island, had 

 kept this name as one of their fit les 't 



O ^ ^ ^Ê Vfe , also P'i-ling-da-ha. 



