NOTES ON MALAY HISTOEY. 157 



it) is an estuary in the coastline, on the further (right geograph- 

 ical) bank of which is a mountain or headland marked 



^alPjU-I 5eV/-c/rz'e»-8//««, presumably Tanjong Sagenting, 



Batu Pahat, as Mr. Phillips suggests. The course after leaving 

 Pulau Pisang passes some half a dozen unnamed islands on 

 the starboard side and then puts in at an inlet or river-mouth 



on the left geographical bank of which is the entry ^fp§ ^'J /7Q 



which Mr. Phillips transcribes Muan-la-kia, adding that 

 the Amoy pronunciation of the characters is Moa-la-ka. There 

 is no sort of doubt that Malacca is intended : the same char- 

 acters are uniformly used in the various Chinese sources 

 translated by Groene veldt. Probably if the other names in 

 the chart Were read with their Hokkien sounds it would make 

 the whole thing moreintelligible. On the right geographical 



bank of the same inlet is the entry g jjgjjj which Mr. 



Phillips has not explained. 



I may add that the sailing directions inscribed on the 

 chart rectify the rough drawing of the chart itself. They rim 

 in the opposite direction to that which I have been following, 

 and go from Samudra via Malacca to China. I extract the 

 following from Mr. Phillips' version of them : " Going from 

 Malacca for five watches the vessel sights Sejin Ting and Batu 

 Pahat river, three watches from which Pesang island is reach- 

 ed, and in rive watches more Carina on is reached, five watches 

 more S.E. by E. brings the vessel off Long Waist island 

 (Singapore?) and into the Linga Straits, O through which for 

 five watches on a course E. by a very little N. the White Eock, 

 Pedra Branca, is reached." The course then proceeds in five 

 more watches N.E. by N. to the eastward of Pulau Aor, and 

 thence to Pulau " Condor " and so on past Cape St. James to 

 China. It is plain that these sailing directions confirm the 

 identifications already given. 



(1) This term is here improperly transferred from the Lingga 

 Straits to the Straits of Singapore. 



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



