Groeneveldt’s Notes on the Malay 
Archipelago and Malacca. 
By W. GEORGE MAXWELL. 
I opened the preceding article on the tapir with a quota- 
tion from Greeneveldt’s “Notes on the Malay Archipelago 
and Malacca,’ and new set down a few miscellaneous ideas, 
which can only be considered as guesses, suggested by a peru- 
sal of that book. ; 
On page 143 of the Notes as they appear in the © Mis- 
cellaneous Papers relating to Indo-China and the Indian 
Archipelago,’ reprinted for this Society by Tribner & Co: 
in 1887, the following words occur in the translation of that 
part of the history of the Sung dynasty (960-1279) which 
sives an account of Java :— 
“In their language pearls are called mutdara, ivory they 
“eall kara, incense kwn-tun-lu-lin, and the rhinoceros tt-mv.”’ 
Groeneveldt in a footnote gives the Chinese ideographs 
which he has transcribed as above, and adds that he has been 
unable to trace the last three to their original form—Mutiara 
is represented by 2S WY oe 
Kara by Fe ae 
Kun-tun-lu-lin by Ea FQN 
ti-mu by {5 38 | 
Whether mutiara means a pearl in Javanese I am unable 
to say, but it is certainly the Malay word for it; and it seems 
probable that, Malay being the lingua franca of the Far East, 
that Malay and not Javanese is the language indicated. 
Jour. Straits Branch R.A. Soc., No. 52, 1908 
