15. Bounda- 
ries of 
Malacca. 
16. Rindo. 
17. Tamung- 
am. 
18. Betre. 
19. Tin, 
20. Tigers. 
21. Cruzado. 
92. Jalea. 
14 BARRETTO DE RESENDE’s ACCOUNT OF MALACCA, 
Sherard Osborn in a map of the Malay Peninsula in his book 
‘“Quedah”’ (A.D. 1838) shows a Mount Formosa south of 
Malacca. A Formosa bark is shewn at the mouth of the Batu 
Pahat river in this Society’s map of the Peninsula dated 1898. 
The boundaries are given in their proper order: North, East and 
South. “The land of the Menameabos”’ (i. e. Menangkabau men) 
is Rembau, one of the Negri Sembilan on the North. “ Rindo”’ 
is the district washed by the Endau river, which flows into 
the sea on the East coast of the Peninsula, and forms the 
boundary between Johore and Pahang. Tamungam (i.e. 
Temenggong) is Johore. 
Endau. Vide supra. 
Johore was governed by a Temenggong subject to the Sultan of Dai, 
and Pahang was governed by a Bendahara also subject to the 
Sultan of Dai. The Malay expression is Baginda di Daa, 
Temenggong di Johore, Bendahara di Pahang. 
This is the Portuguese form of the word we generally write as betel. 
The native name (Malayalam) for betel-leaf is vettila (the para or 
simple leaf). 
Garcia de Orta (Goa 1563) writes thus in his colloquies: 
“We call it betre, because the first land known by the 
Portuguese was Malabar............... all the names that occur, 
which are not Portuguese are Malabar, like betre.”’ 
Tin is mentioned in a Chinese account of Malacca dated A.D. 1416. 
It is thus translated by Groeneveldt. (Miscellaneous Papers 
relating to Indo-China. Second Series Vol. I page 244.) 
‘Tin is found in two places of the mountains, and the king 
has appointed officers to control the mines. People are sent to 
wash it, and after it has been melted, it is cast into small blocks 
weighing one cati eight taels or one cati four taels official 
weight: ten pieces are bound together with rattan and form a 
small bundle, whilst forty pieces make a large bundle. In all 
their trading transactions they use these pieces of tin instead 
of money.” 
A fuller account of the exorcition of these tigers by the bishop is 
eiven by Gordinho de Eiredia in a chapter of which a transla- 
tion is given in the appendix. 
The tigers of Malacca had long been famous. In the Ying-yai 
Sheng Lan” (A.D. 1416) there is mention of a “kind of tiger 
which assumes a human shape, comes into the town and goes 
among the people.’ The commentary gravely adds that 
“when it recognized it is caught and killed.”’ The Malay 
superstitious regarding were tigers are too well-known to require 
repetition here. 
A silver coin (formerly gold) now equivalent to 480 reis, or about 
two shillings of English money. It was worth much more 
relatively in the seventeenth century. 
A kind of galley much used by the Portuguese. It carried a 
number of fighting men. 
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