6 AN ACCOUNT OF THK WILD TRIItES 

 liun , and ygaiii lhat tiie Malays, at tltal Imw. 

 (iu tlie Ihiiiceiith century ), had Imt a t^iiort 

 time inhabited thi* Peninsula, since wc are 

 infornied by llie Sijani MttlmpiK \\m\. Sin- 

 {(a[toi'e, so eidehralt?d in Mahiyan liislor). 

 as fjavinj^ been tlie lirsl [>iace ui" settlenieni 

 ttf the early Malay eniijTrants from Sunia- 

 ti*a, and the origin of the onipire ol" Ma- 

 lacca, i-eceived her first colonists only in 

 the twelfth century, whefi Sanfr Nila Utannu 

 supposed by Mohammedan historians in 

 have been a descendant of Alexander the 

 Great, settled on the island with a colony 

 of Malays originally from Sumatra, and 

 iouiuled the city of Singapore, A, I), t i (hj, 

 lhat is about one bundled years before tlie 

 arrival of tlieTn PntUiir at Naninjj; where 

 lite Jakuns, who were then already nume- 

 rous, as welbas in the tither places before 



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This book hsi*i Imeii |iriritofl at Siii(|ii[)t>re. mulct' Ihi* ilt- 

 milinii of \hfl-Allnh Ixhi Ah<l-fl-Ktidor Muiischy. 



