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fortress there, but expressed a doubt as to its trustworthiness, 
there being plenty of good stone lying much nearer to hand than 
Batu Pahat, the cutting of which is also attributed by another 
tradition to the Siamese. 
This view is confirmed by the account given in Rarries’ “ Trans- 
lation of a Malay Manuscript” (Journal No. 4, Straits Branch of 
the Royal Asiatic Society, December, 1879, p. 14) which runs as 
follows :— 
“ As soon as the letters arrived at Malacca from the Raja of Goa, 
“the Portuguese who were in Malacca ordered such of the people as 
“had remained there to bring iron-stones for the fort from Kwala 
“Lineggi,(?) Pilau Upeh,(?) Batu Bras,(*) Pdlau Jawa (a small 
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“island near Malacca), from Téluk Mas,(*) from Pésan Pringgi,(*) 
“from Ptlau Birong,(*) and from the country in the interior of 
“ Malacca; and the price the Portuguese paid for them was at the 
rate of thirty dollars per hundred stones of large, and twenty 
“dollars per hundred stones of small size. For the eggs which 
“they used in their mortar, the Portuguese paid at the rate of a 
“wang bhadru (new coin) (7) for each. For lime (kdpur) they 
1) N. W. boundary of Malacca. Formerly there was a fort here, 
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at which NewsoLp was stationed for some time; the Police Station 
which has taken its place is a little nearer the mouth of the river. 
(7) This was originally part of the town, and occupied, at the 
time ALBUQUERQUE took Malacca, by nine thousand Javanese un- 
der a chief named Utemuti Raja, who made overtures to ALBU- 
QUERQUE to protect himself in case of the latter’s success. A cen- 
tury ago the island was only a pistol-shot from the shore, and 
twenty or thirty years ago the shore at Limbongan opposite ex- 
tended a quarter of a mile further to sea than it does now. ‘There 
are three krdmats on the island still visited by the natives, of 
which one is the tomb of a Javanese. 
(3) The site of this I cannot ascertain, but the rock is said to be 
white and of a friable character. 
(+) About 7 miles South of Malacca, said to derive its name from 
gold once found in the sand of the sea-shore. 
This should probably be “Sauh Pringgi,” where the Portu- 
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guese anchored ; it is a rock not far from Téluk Mas. 
(©) This is a small islet not far from the preceding. 
(7) Value 24 cents. 
