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baros and sa-tien (*); tliey all recéived honorary titles according to their 

 rank. The third envoy died in China after he had left the capital and the 

 government gave a present of fifty pieces of silk for his burial. 



In 1083 three other envoys came, who all recéived honorary titles 

 according to their rank. 



In the period Shan-shêng (1094 — 1097) they made their appearance 

 once again. 



In the year 1156 the king Si-li-ma-ha-la-sha ( 2 ) sent envoys to bring 

 tribute. The Emperor saicl: //When distant people feel themselves attracted 

 //by our civilising infl uence , their discernment must be praised. It is there. 

 wfore that I rejoice in it, but not because I want to benefit by the products 

 //of their country." On this occasion the king had also sent pearls to be 

 presented to one of the ministers , who had however died in the meantime ; 

 the Emperor gave orders to receive them and to pay in return the estimated 

 value. 



In the year 1178 they sent again envoys to bring as tribute products 

 of the country; on this occasion the emperor issued an edict ordering that 

 they should not come to court any more, but make an establishment at 

 Ch'üan-chou in the province of Fukien. 



The above account does not teach us much about the country it treats of, 

 but still we have thought it advisable to translate it in extenso , as it contains much 

 information on the intercourse which was carried on between China and the countries 

 of these parts during the time. "What we said above on p. 4 about the tribute of 

 which the Chinese always speak , is fully carried out by the details given here. The 

 ceremony of bringing tribute to the Emperor was oidy a pretext to gain facilities for 

 the trade and the princes of the Eastern Coast of Sumatra largely availed themselves 

 of it , for this tribute was brought by them many times more than is recorded in the 

 account translated by us , where only those instances are mentioned , on which the his- 

 torian had something remarkable to teil, but in the biographies of the different 

 emperors we meet also with a careful record of other visits, which have not found a 

 place here. It appears also that at last the Chinese began to find these compliments 

 rather expensive, and relegated their foreign friends to Ch'üan-chou , to trade there in 

 the ordinary way. 



In transcribing the names of the different kings, the old Mandarin pronuncia- 



(') ip|j[ ^ ! we have been unable to fmd out the meaning of these words. 



O S %\\ JÜFi K Sü &*È) Sri Maharad .i a ; the text has |£È instead of ^Èi but 



this is probably a misprint, whieh we correct without hesitatiou, 



