NOES (OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. 107 
Impit-impit bunyr badak 
is the opening line of one of the Besisi songs.” 
It is perhaps too much to suggest that zmpzt is the word 
represented by ¢tz-mz; all that can be said is that it is the 
word that most closely resembles it. 
II. 
In Shih-pi’s account of Java in the history of the Yuan 
dynasty (page ale after mention of a person named Ha-j7-ka- 
ta-na-ka-la, whom we may take to be Haji Kadir Nukhoda, 
the writer states that on his return to China from Java he 
took to the Chinese Emperor a letter in golden characters from 
the Muli (or Buli). 
The ideographs which Groeneveldt has thus transcribe 
are ¥3g A and Jf FA 
In a footnote the translator states that this name Gant 
be identified. 
The author, Shih-pi, informs us that he was a man from 
Po-yeh in the District of Li-chou in the Department of Pau- 
ting in the Province of Chih-li. 
In this province the Pekingese dialect is spoken, and in 
this dialect the ideographs given above represent the sounds 
mud-li or mu-li. 
. The word becomes intelligible if we assume that the 
sound Ah should be added to it. Ah Ap is the word that one 
commonly meets in CUES names; Ah Sin or Ah Chong for 
instance. 
It is a word used in the colloquial rather tlian in the 
written language, and it adds nothing to the meaning of the 
word or words to which it is joined. It is extremely: prob- 
able therefore that either some copyist, or perhaps even the 
translator, of this history, considering that Mud-li and Mud-li 
Ah to be the same thing, dropped the “Ah.” Mud-li-ah is of 
course the word mudliyar a well known title of rank among 
the Hindus of Southern Indian and Ceylon; and the account 
* Skeat and Bragden’ s ‘‘ Pagan Tribes” Vol. II. p. 113 
R. A. Soc., No. 52, 1908. 
