PORTUGUESE HISTORY OF MALACCA, 



[ Tie following paper is reprinted from a volume of the 

 Malacca Observer, a newspaper published in Malacca in 182 i. 

 It appears to have been borrowed in the main from the u Asia 

 Portugueza" of Manuel de Faria y Souza, a translation of 

 ■which is to be found in Vol. YI of Kerr's Yoyages. The 

 notes have been supplied principally by Mr. D. F. A. 

 He rye y. E. Koek. ] 



ALACCA was built by the C elates, ( x ) a people 

 who chiefly subsisted by fishing, and who united 

 themselves with the Malays, who inhabited the 

 mountains. Their first Chief was Paramisora. ( 2 ) 

 who had been a person of high rank in the island 

 of Java, whence he was expelled by another Chief 

 who usurped his lordship, on which occasion Paramisora fled to 

 Cincapura ( Singapura ) ( 3 ) where he was well received by the 

 lord of that place and raised to high employment. But having 

 rebelled against his benefactor. ( l ) he was driven from thence 

 by the King of Siam. and forced to wander about Malacca, as 



( x ) i.e.orang laid — no doubt from "Selat/' the common designa- 

 tion of Singapore now-a-days by Malacca people. 



( 2 ) Javanese, Trama-sura, or Prdmeya-sura\ Sanscrit, Ayramasya- 



silra. incomparable hero (?). 



( 3 ) Sanscrit, Sinlta. lion, pura, city (ef. Indra-piVra, on west coast 

 of Sumatra). 



(*) De Barros says he murdered him, and ruled Singapore 5 

 years, before he was expelled by the Siamese under the Raja of 

 Patani. who was brother of the murdered king. 



