A TRANSLATION OP THE KEDDAH ANNALS. 
daughter iu marriage — along with the letter were 100 male and 100 
female slaves. Malayan women at the present day frequently 
marry Chinese and without the formality even of abjuring their 
religion. As Chinese women are very scarce out of China the con¬ 
verse but very rarely happens 
It does not apt ear that a vessel was despatched at this period to 
Vulo P ercha. This is the name still applied, by the people to the 
eastwaid, to the Island of Sumatra. j* Peri ha is the Persian 
pachah signifying a piece or robe, hut in the Malayan it 
properly means a remnant or piece of cloth, rag, or tatter, both of 
which etymons however throwing no light on the subject. Ihe 
Arabs probably from some fancy of their own give the Islat'd this 
name. There is a large tree which grows in the Straits and pro¬ 
bably also in Sumatra named pokok percha, from which is pro¬ 
cured the gum or gitta percha lately introduced into commerce. 
Marsden does not seem to have heard of the word as thus applied 
in the latter instance. He says Indalas was a name of that 
Island Allusion is made to this Island further on. 
(To be Continued) 
