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identified in this connexion with the Island of Singapore by 

 Professor Kern, Colonel Gerini and the Encyclopaedic, may 

 safely be said to be determined beyond all doubt or question : 

 an additional piece of evidence regarding it will be mentioned 

 later. Jere may, as the Encyclopaedic suggests, be Jering in 

 the Patani states. But it might equally well stand for Gun- 

 ong Jerai ; only this district is already referred to by the men- 

 tion of Lengkasuka. 



Kanjapiuiran has received no satisfactory explanation as 

 yet. Clearly, if it is a Malay place-name and not altogether 

 corrupt, the expression must be a compound one, not a single 

 word. 



There remains onl> Sang (Hyang) Hujung. This is rather 

 an interesting name. Professor Kern writes it " Sang Hyang 

 Hudjun, " but the original distinctly has a guttural nasal as 

 the final of the last word. The Encyclopaedic conjecturally 

 identifies it with Ujong Salang, i.e. Junk Ceylon. For this 

 there is no shadow of evidence or probability. We must look 

 for it elsewhere. I lay no stress at all on the fact of the name 

 occurring between those of Tumasik and Kelang: the Nagar- 

 akretagama is a poem, not a geography book' (the more's the 

 pity, for our purpose), and the exigencies of metre may have 

 influenced the writer more than any considerations of topog- 

 raphy. But the very form of the name appears to me to 



speak for itself. It is evidently the k^y* ;t~*« of the Sejarah 



Melayu, which we must transliterate San-yang' (or Saniang or 

 Seniang, not Sening) Hujong (or Ujong). Shellabear's Roman- 

 ised edition of 1898 ' (pp. 43 and 81) has Sening Ujung. 

 Leyden in his translation ' (" Malay Annals " 1821), being no 

 doubt guided by native tradition, has on p. 88 Sangang Ujong 

 and on p. 191 Senyang Ujong. In short it is the district now 

 known as Sungai (or Sungei) Ujong, locally often called Se- 

 mujong (on the same principle that the title Yang di-pertuan 

 becomes in the Menangkabau dialect Yampituan and Yamtuan). 

 This name Sungai Ujong has long been a puzzle to etymolo- 

 gists. If it meant anything, it could only mean " the river of 

 the cape (or corner) or else " the Ujong river, " whatever 



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