108 NOTES OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. - 
is the more interesting by reason of its showing the use in 
Java of this Hindu word in the year A. D. 1292, the date of 
Siibe -pi’s visit, as the official title of the person who sent the 
golden-lettered message to the Chinese Emperor. 
If. 
In the history of the Ming dynasty, Book 304, there is an 
account of the travels of Cheng Ho, an eunuchin the Emperor’s 
Palace (A.D. 1403-1435). This account is translated by 
Groeneveldt on page 167. 
Cheng Ho gives a list of thirty-five places which, during 
his service under three Emperors, he had visited. Among 
them he mentions on page 170. 
KM Be BT aA Beau ALI 
Groeneveldt translates these places as Malacca, Brunei, 
Pahang, Kelantan, Hormus, and Pila. 
There ean be little doubt that Pila is Perak. If this is 
admitted, Hormus (Ormuz, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf) 
cannot be correct, for in a list of places the name of this place 
would not be inserted between Kelantan and Perak. 
Hut-lu-mo-su is the sound represented by the ideographs 
2] ES ii iy in the Mandarin dialect, 
[Hut-lu may possibly be an attempt at Pulaw and Pulau 
Mausu may conceivably be the island of the Mausu pirates, 
who are gpoken of on page 257 as coming from Borueo and 
ravaging the surrounding countries, even as far as Pahang. | 
Though the place intended to be indicated remains unidentified, 
and though perhaps it may now be impossible of identification, 
I venture to submit that there can be little doubt that i4 is 
some place in or near the Malay Peninsula or Archipelago. 
IV..:- 
On page 177 in the translation of the nee -yal onde: lan, 
(A, ID, 1416) there is the following account of the weights of 
Java. 
‘Their weights are as follows: a cati (kin) has twenty 
“taels (lang), a tael sixteen ch’ven, and a chen four kobangs.”’ 
~ Jour, Straits Branch 
