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these as much place as they want, paying accordingly. The people of the 

 country come there to trade with them and the merchants live there also. 

 These shops are not far from the ships; when the watchmen on board cry 

 out at night, it can be heard by those who sleep on shore. 



Kelantan O. 

 History of the Ming dynasty (1368—1643). Book 326. 



In the year 1411 the king Maharadja K'u-ma-r ( 2 ) sent envoys to 

 bring tribute, and in 1412 Chêng- Ho got orders to bring him an imperial 

 letter praising his conduct and to present him with different kinds of silk. 



The Tung Hsi Yang K'au gives au account of Kelautan and of the neighbour- 

 ing Patani, but inakes the unfortunate mistake of confounding the latter, which is 

 called Ta-ni ( 3 ) by the Chinese, with Pu-ni ( 4 ) or the West-coast of Borneo. In 

 consequence of this mistake it has mixed up these three countries in a hopeless mass , 

 from which we do not venture to make any extract. 



Our sources give no further information about the Malay peninsula , but we 

 find that the often quoted travel ers of the first decades of the 15th century, visited 

 some of the smaller islands on its coast and give the following account of two of 

 them: 



Pulu Sembilan or the Nine Islands ( 5 ). 



Hsing-ch'a Shêng-lan (1436). 



These islands are situated near Malacca. They chiefly produce lignum 

 aloes in its different qualities and are covered with a luxuriant vegetation. 



In the year 1409 Chêng Ho and his party sent soldiers into the 

 forest to collect this incense , and they got six pieces 8 or 9 feet in diameter 

 and 60 to 70 feet long; the smell of it was very strong and it had fine 

 black marks. 



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