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to the left (port, south) side. (') Tan-ma-seiJi is marked on the 

 coast just opposite the second of the starboard islands. After 

 passing the shoal to port, the course runs between Karimun 



aUl J Keih-li-men, which it likewise leaves to port, 



r=t 



and Pulau Pisang WJ^^Wjl Pi-suhg-seu, leaving the latter 



to starboard. This seems to me to clinch the Tumasik = Tema- 

 sek = Tan-ma-seih = Singapore equation absolutely.. 



Of course the chart is not evidence that Singapore was 

 still an inhabited settlement at the time when it was compiled. 

 Maps and charts often contain names that are merely tradition- 

 al : they are usually compilations embodying the notes and 

 records of several generations of travellers and navigators. 

 Besides, names often adhere to sites long after they have ceased 

 to be inhabited. We shall see in a moment that this is prob- 

 ably the case in the present instance, for the next thing on 

 the chart after Pulau Pisang (and wrongly put quite close to 



(a) 

 (d.) 



(') The starboard islands, so far as I can make out. are marked 



WW (b ' flifil l "\||jR|fc. tto *«*"■■* 



(f) and (g) lie just opposite (below) (c). The shoal (li) f^^fe^g 



lies just to the felt (west) of (g) and a bit further, on the south- west 

 apparently, comes Karimun. 



Mr. Phillips conjecturally identifies (c), which he transliterates 

 Chang -yaou-seu, with Singapore island ; but I think it represents some 

 small island lying to the south of Singapore island. Perhaps it is 

 Pulau Panjang : the Chinese name means "Long Waist Island." 



(2) Cf. Pelliot, in Bulletin de l'Ecole Fran caise d' Extreme Orient, 

 1904, Tome IV., p. 345 and Gerini, J. K A. S., Jnly 1905, Part III., 

 pp. 500-1. The first named paper is a long and learned dissertation 

 in which a very large number of problems of historical geopraphy 

 relating to South-Eastein Asia are exhaustively discussed. It teems 

 with references to all manner of sources, Asiatic and European, and 

 should be referred to by all who are interested in these questions. 



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