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ceeding from right to left and starting at Senggora 

 Snn-ku-na, we pass four groups of unexplained Chinese 

 characters and then arrive at the Kelantan river SjfjHjj"^?^ 

 Keih-lan-tan-kiang . Next on the coastline comes Trengganu 



J^/JP I JhJ Ting-kia-hia-lu, then the Pahang river 

 K£«yt/n? P'eng-keng-kiang, then a place called 



^SrJBSSlfe^ Ta-na-ki-seu which Mr. Phillips has 



not identified, and then 0i./ifyp%J Tan-ma- seAh, which, as 



Colonel Gerini has rightly pointed out, is our old acquaintance 

 Tumasik or Temasek, otherwise Singapore. Curiously enough 

 this is represented as being on the mainland, which shows that 

 at this date the Chinese shipping already passed through the 

 New Straits to the south of the island of Singapore, not 

 through the Old Straits to the north of it. 



Thus far we have been coasting along the east coast of the 

 Peninsula. Dotted alongside of it in the chart, from a little 

 to the right (i.e. north) of Kelantan onwards, are figured a 

 number of named islands, some of which have been identified 

 by Mr. Phillips, others not. Nearly opposite Ta-na-ki-seu the 

 course laid down on the chart runs past an island marked 



p-j fljli Pei-chiao, leaving it on the left or port side. This 



island Mr. Phillips identifies with Pedra Branca. The course 

 then runs amongst a number of islands, leaving three to the 

 right' (starboard, north) and four islands and a shoal, all named, 



(I)" g| =" island" 



R. A. Soc, No. 53, 1909- 



