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piece of cloth. Girls of rich families wear four or five golden circles on their 

 foreheads, and the daughters of the common people use strings of coloured 

 glassbeads instead. 



They boil salt out of seawater and make wine by fermenting rice- 

 gruel. 



Products of the country are lignum aloes, camphor, tin, and a kind 

 of wood used in dyeing. Articles of import are gold , silver , coloured silks , 

 Java-cloth, copper and ironware, gongs, boards, etc. 



History of the Ming dynasty (1368—1643). Book 325. 



Pahang ( ] ) is situated at the west of Siam. In the year 1378 the 

 king Maharadja Tadjau ( 2 ) sent envoys with a letter, written on a golden 

 leaf, and bringing as tribute six foreign slaves and products of the country. 

 They were received according to the established rules. 



In the year 1411 the king Pa-la-mi-so-la-ta-lo-si-ni ( 3 ) sent envoys 

 carrying tribute. In 1412 Chêng Ho went as an envoy to their country, 

 and in the year 1414 they sent tribute again. 



In the year 1416 they sent tribute together with Kalikut and Java, 

 and Chêng Ho was again ordered to go there. 



The soil of this country is fertile; the climate is always warm and 

 rice is abundant there; they make salt by boiling seawater and wine by 

 fermenting the sap of the cocoanut-tree. 



The higher and lower classes are on a very intimate footing and there 

 are no thieves; they are very superstitious regarding demons and spirits, 

 making their images of fragrant wood and sacrificing men to them , in order 

 to avert calamities or to pray for happiness. 



Amongst the articles which they brought as tribute were elephant- 

 teeth, camphor-baros , olibanum, lignum aloes, sandal-wood, pepper, sapan- 

 wood and such more. 



In the period Wan-li (1573 — 1619) the son of the viceroy ( 4 ) of 

 Djohore was to marry the daughter of the king of Pahang. When the 

 marriage was about to take place, the viceroy brought nis son to Pahang 



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