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place Sri Bhoja, San-bo-tsai, Sarbaza, etc., as it is variously called, 
has been identified with almost absolute certainty as being situ- 
ated on the Palembang river in South-eastern Sumatra; and the 
Mo-lo-yu country can therefore be confidently regarded as placed 
immediately to the west or north-west, that is to say about 
the middle of Sumatra. I Tsing, who stayed in the Jfo-lo-yu 
country for two months on his way to India, says that it was 
fifteen days’ sail from Bhoja, the capital of Sri Bhoja; and it 
must have been situated approximately under the Equator, for in 
the middle of the eighth month and in the middle of spring the 
sun cast no shadow there at noon. Moreover it was half-way 
on the route between Bhoja and Ka-cha (a place in or near Achin 
or Kedah, more probably the former, as it was south of the | 
country of the Naked People, 7. e., the Nicobar and Andaman 
islands). From Ha-cha ships sailed in thirty days to Nagapatana 
(Negapatam), and I Tsing himself took ship there for Tamralipti 
(Tamluk), a port near the mouth of the Hooghly. 
It seems therefore that the J/o-/o-yuw country was not at 
this time a purely inland State, but had a coast line on the Straits 
nore or less opposite to where Malacca now stends. . 
The language of the J/o-/o-yu country was that which served 
as a lingua francain the Archipelago generally, and was known 
to I Tsing and other Chinese authors as the K‘un-lun language. 
This term was derived, apparently, from the Chinese name of 
Pulau Condor, on the same principle on which slaves from these 
regions are often-mentioned in Chinese chronicles as X‘un-lun 
slaves, from whatever part of the Archipelago they might. have 
actually been imported. The reason seems to have been that 
the Pulau Condor people were the first of the Southern island- 
ers to come into contact with the Chinese, who afterwards loose- 
ly extended the term to the inhabitants of the Archipelago 
generally. This appears to be the meaning of the explanation I 
Tsing gives when, speaking of the Archipelago as a whole and 
after enumerating some of the principal islands, he goes on to 
say, ‘They were generally known by the general name of 
‘Country of K‘un-lun’ since (the people of) K‘un-lun first visit- 
ed Kochin and Kwangtung.” 
That the language was really Malay appears from the fact 
that the “ pin-lang fruit” is mentioned by I Tsing as being used 
