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gai Ujong, Singapore and (probably) Muar would hardly have 

 omitted Malacca, which lies between these places, if it had 

 existed at that time. This string of names therefore once 

 more confirms the amended chronology that I have suggested. 

 Without laying any particular stress on the fact. I think 

 it is worth while drawing attention to the considerable gaps 

 left by the Nagarakretagama in its enumeration. The Encyclo- 

 pedic points out the omission of Senggora and Patani. It is 

 equally noticeable that there is a complete blank between 

 Kedah and Kelang : not a single place on the coast of Perak is 

 mentioned. The same is true of the coast-line intervening 

 between the Pahang river and Point Kumenia. It may be 

 surmised that there were at that early date no settlements of 

 any note along those two strips of coast. 



IV. Further Details from the Wu-Pei-Pi-Shu Charts. 



A brief reference must be made to some additional almost 

 contemporary evidence which serves to confirm that of the 

 Nagarakretagama in some points and to supplement it in others. 

 For reasons which will presently be obvious I cannot pretend 

 to do justice to this independent source, and I regret that I 

 can only use it as a sort of appendix to what has already been 

 said, instead of dealing with it as adequately as it deserves. 

 The evidence in question is that of the Chinese charts appended 

 to a Chinese work called the Wu-pei-pi-shu, by one She, Yung- 

 t'oo. This work, it appears from two papers in Vol. XX,, pp. 

 209-226 and Vol. XXI., pp. 30-42 of the Journal of the China 

 Branch of the Koyal Asiatic Society, is a relatively modern com- 

 pilation but embodies much material taken straight out of con- 

 siderably older books. Mr. G. Phillips, the author of the two 

 papers j ust referred to, considers that the charts appended to it are 

 older than the commencement of the fifteenth century. They 

 are alleged to be the charts used by the Chinese captains who 

 navigated the vessels conveying the celebrated Chinese envoy 

 Cheng Ho (commonly called Sam-po) and his suite to the vari- 

 ous southern and western countries which he visited. (This 

 envoy, I may parenthetically observe, is recorded to have visit- 



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