118 PORTUGUESE HISTORY OF MALACCA. 



a just punishment for his ingratitude.^) Having drawn to- 

 gether a number of the before-mentioned natives, with whom he 

 established a new colony, he gave the name of Malacca to 

 the rising city, signifying in the language of the country a 

 banished man, (-) as a memorial of his own fortune. The first 

 king of Malacca was Xactue Darxa or Sheikh Darshah, ( 3 ) 

 called by some authors Raal Saib, who was the son of Para- 

 misora, and was subject to the King of Siam; but from whom 

 his successors revolted. ( 4 ) In the Chinese Records, Aungot's 

 Collection, quoted by Colonel Yule in his Marco Polo, vol. ii. 



( x ) The account given in Leyden's translation of the Sejarah 

 Malayu differs entirely from this, making Malacca to be founded 

 by Raja Iskaistder Shah, the ruler of Singapore (in proper succes- 

 sion), on his expulsion from that city by the Javanese despatched 

 by the Betara of Majapahit. De Barros' account is the mo>t 

 trustworthy. The Chronicler in the Sejarah possibly preferred ad- 

 mitting defeat by Javanese, probably the original founders of Singa- 

 pore, in place o£the Siamese, long a national enemy, and of a diffe- 

 rent creed. According to Leyden's translation of the Sejarah Malayu, 

 Raja Iskaxder Shah, after settling on the Muar for a time, gave it 

 up and removed to Sangang (Sungei ?) Ujoug, where he left a 

 ' ; mantri" (minister), and proceeded to Bertain ( a place 8 or 

 9 miles up the Malacca River, but called, in the Sejarah, a river), 

 where he had a " pelandok" hunt, and a white ''pelandok " was so 

 plucky as to resist one of the clogs and drive it into the water ; 

 the Eaja was much pleased at this incident, and finding the tree 

 under which he was waiting was the " malaka''' tree, decided to 

 found a city there and call it after the tree. Mr. "W. E. Maxwell 

 has pointed out that this tradition closely resembles a Guzrati 

 one, and is probably borrowed from it. See Journal, Royal Asiatic 

 Society, January, 1881. 



( 2 ) Said to mean so in Javanese, but it is no doubt taken from the 

 tree of that name, JEmblica officinalis, which grows in the country. 



( 3 ) The Commentaries of Albuquerque state that he visited 

 China, and became the Emperor's vassal, and got leave to coin 

 money, which he did on his return, of pewter called " cash." 



( 4 ) The Commentaries of Albuquerque state that Malacca be- 

 came independent of Siam about DO years before Albuquerque 

 attacked it. 



