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At that time Java had conipletely conquered San-bo-tsai and changed 

 its name to Kn-kang ('). When San-bo-tsai went down, the whole country 

 was disturbed and the Javanese could not keep all the land; for this 

 reason the Chinese , who were established there , stood up for themselves, and 

 a man from Nan-hai (Namhoi) in Canton, called Liang Tau-ming ( 2 ), who 

 had lived there a long time and roamed over the sea, foliowed by several 

 thousand men from Eukien and Canton , was taken by them as their chief. 

 He reigned as master of a part of the country and Iris son, who once met 

 an imperial envoy sent on a mission out of China, was taken by the latter 

 to the court. 



In the year 1405 the Emperor sent a messenger, who was from the 

 same town as Liang Tau-ming, with an order summoning him to court, 

 Tau-ming and his confederate Chêng Po-k'o ( 3 ) foliowed this envoy and 

 brought as tribute products of the country. They returned bestowed with 

 many presents. 



In 1406 the (Chinese) chief of Ku-kang, called Ch'ên Tsu-i ( k ), sent 

 his son, whilst Tau-nling sent his nephew, to go to court together. Tsu-i 

 was also a man from Canton, and though he sent tribute to court , he carried 

 on piracy at the same time, and the envoys from other countries, who 

 brought tribute to China, suffered much at his hands. 



In 1407, when the imperial envoy Chêng Ho came back from the 

 west , he sent a messenger to call him ; Tsu-i feigned obedience but secretly 

 made plans to rob him too. Another Chinese , of the name Shih Chin-ch'ing 

 ( 5 ), informed Chêng Ho of this, and when Tsu-i came to attackhim,he was 

 made a prisoner, brought to the capital and executed there. At the same 

 time Chin-ch'ing sent his son-in-law to bring tribute , on which the Emperor 

 gave an order to institute the office of Pacificator of Ku-kang ( G ) and ap- 

 pointed Chin-ch'ing to it; a seal, a hat and a girdle were given to him by 



O ^ffe VbC Ku-kang, the old river, is the Chinese name for Palembang up to the present 

 day. 



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(*) JBfl UB. iel • ^ e see * iere ^ ia * there was a Chinese chief at Kukaug and another at 



Sanbotsai, therefore these two were different places, which question we will discuss at the end of 

 this account. 



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O H }§ & gj| ^j . Coinpare p. 4A. note 2. 



