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the western king Ma-ha-la-ch'ih (*) and the king of the Mountain of Ka- 

 la-ba-ting ( 2 ) called Paduka Prabu ( 3 ), brought their families and their chiefs, 

 altogether more than 340 persons, and came over the sea to court in order to 

 carry tribute. They presented a letter of gold, with the characters engraved 

 upon it, and ofïered pearls, precious stones, tortoise-shell and other articles. 

 They were treated as those of Malacca, and after some time they were each 

 appointed king of their country and presented with a seal, a commission, 

 a complete court-dress , a cap , a girdle , a horse with trappings , insignia of 

 their rank and other things ; their followers also got caps and girdles according 

 to their rank. The three kings remained twenty seven days and when they were 

 about to return, each of them got a girdle adorned with precious stones, 

 a hundred taels of gold, two thousand taels of silver, two huadred 

 pieces of gauze and silk with patterns, three hundred pieces of plain silk, 

 ten thousand taels in paper money ( 4 ), two thousand strings of cash, one robe 

 embroidered with golden snakes, one with dragons and one with kilins. 



The eastern king died in the government hotel at Tê-chou ( 5 ) ; the 

 Emperor sent an officer to perform sacrifices and ordered the authorities to 

 provicle the funeral and to arrange the tomb. He got a posthumous title and 

 his wife and concubines remained with eighteen followers to take care of 

 the grave ; when they had finished the three years mourning , they were sent 

 back to their country and the Emperor sent at the same time an envoy with 

 a letter to the late king's elclest son Tu-ma-han ( 6 ); the letter was of the 

 following contents: //Your father knew to honor the Middle Country and 

 //he came himself with his family and his officers to the court across ten thou- 

 //sand miles of sea; I appreciated his sincerity and appointed him king, 

 //treated him with kindness and sent officers to escort him back, but when 

 //the boat had arrived at Tê-chou, he became ill and died. When I heard 

 //this I was very sorry; I ordered a burial and sacrifices according to the 



C) Q& % i M , Probably Maharadja. 



(*) lÊi 3pü MR ' Jll^i probably the mountain Klaibataugan on the north-castern coast 

 of Borneo. 



o E» fis H G M h • Pa - kl - ka Pa - la -p"- 



C) ïjg3 J»M on the Grand Canal in the north of the provincc of Shan-tuug. 



