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Across the sea, at a distance of peveral days journpy, are the coun- 

 tries called Sim-to-lo (or Sun-da-ra) , Pi-pa-tho (or Pi-pa-da) , Tan-tiong 

 (Tandjong?), Oan-kiau and Bali (*). The inhabitants of all these islands do 

 not cultivate the land, but only live from rapine, thcrefore merchant-ships 



selclom go there. 



Bali. 



The following account is applied hy Chinese geographers to the island of Bali 

 and we have no reason to disagree with them; it is found in the 



Old History of the T'ang dynasty (618—906). Book 197. 



The country of Dva-pa-tan ( 2 ) is situated to the south of Cambodja , 

 at a distance of two months, going by sea. It lies at the east of Kaling 

 (Java) ( 3 ) and the west of Mi-li-kü ( k ) , on its north it has the sea. 



lts customs are about the same as those in Kaling. Rice ripens once 

 a month. They have letters which they write on patra-leaves ( 5 ). 



When one of them dies, they fi.11 his mouth with gold, put golden 

 bracelets on his legs and arms, and, after having added camphor-oil, camphor 

 baros and other kinds of perfumery , they pile up firewood and burn the corpse. 



In the year 647 their king sent envoys to bring as tribute cotton 

 cloth , elephant tusks and white sandal. The Emperor gave them an imperial 

 letter and rewarded them with different presents. 



On page 19 we have seen that, in 992, Bali was called by the Javanese the 

 Country of the Brahmans. After this we read nothing more about them, which can 

 only be explained by assuming that they had little or no intercourse with Java, 

 perhaps being on bad terms from religious or political motives , and so did aotcome 

 across the Chinese, who were in the habit of visitiug this lat ter country. 



to identify these countrics, except perhaps the last; it is true that the character ]^ is generalij 

 pronounced tfang or p'éng, but at Amoy it is sometimes p'a» or p'e» and by the author of this 

 account, as well as by others, it is uscd simply for pa in Pahang ^ £h ; ' ' )1;uc 0n "" ' : ' M " 

 ern coast of Malacca. Later Chinese geographers also say that (his name designates Bali. 



o m m s. 



O ËJ ï& JËÜ Pa-ta stands For the Sanscrü palm. leaves. Il are the lea-ves of the 



J^>t 



Bonissus ilahcllilbnnis or Loutarus domestica. 



