NOTES OF THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. MONS. 
For catz, tael and ch’ien the author gives the Chinese 
names. Kobanyg is written Ih £6. The koban7 is the 
kupang which we know best at the present day as the ten-cent 
piece. It was originally a weight, there being four kupangs 
to a gampal, (which thevcfore corresponds to the ch’ven of the 
present account) and it only bezame a coin by its relative weight 
to that of the dollar. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that 
there is no connection between the word keping and the ten 
cent piece. 
VE 
In the account of Malacca in the Ying-yai Shéng-lan, in 
a list of the prolucts of the country, +) Jit i is men- 
tioned. This is translated on page 244 as damar, and in the 
Mandarin dialect the ideographs would be thus pronounced, 
the last ideographs giving the ‘r’’-sound. Butin the Hylam 
dialect, which I have suggested to be the native dialest of the 
writer, it is pronounced “lu,” and the three ideographs would 
represent da-ma-lu, which would then appear to be an attempt 
at damar-laut. On the same page there is an account of a 
better kind of damar, which is © clear and transpirent and 
resembles amber.’ It is called +3 68 eS ET which is 
pronounced swn-tu-lu-s in the Mandarin dialect and dun-lu-lu- 
st in Hylam. 
In neither dialect does the word bear the least resem- 
blance to mata-kuching, the Malay name for this superior kiad 
of damar, and it is difficult to conjecture what the word that 
the writer was thinking of may be. 
VI. 
On page 255, there is a translation of a place called 
WZ UL- This Groeneveldt translates as Pahang, and a 
perusal of the account shows that Pahang is undoubtedly the 
place referred to. 
R. A. Soc., No. 52, 1508. 
