Hsin.]

[2] The extract of which this is the substance I owe to the kindness of
Professor J. Summers, formerly of King's College.

[3] I am happy to express my obligation to the remarks of my lamented
friend Lieutenant Garnier, for light on this subject, which has led to
an entire reform in the present note. (See his excellent Historical
Essay, forming ch. v. of the great "_Voyage d'Exploration en
Indo-Chine_," pp. 136-137).

[4] The _Kakula_ of Ibn Batuta was probably on the coast of Locac.
The _Kamarah Komar_ of the same traveller and other Arab writers,
I have elsewhere suggested to be _Khmer_, or Kamboja Proper. (See
_I.B._ IV. 240; _Cathay_, 469, 519.) Kakula and Kamarah
were both in "_Mul-Java_"; and the king of this undetermined
country, whom Wassaf states to have submitted to Kublai in 1291, was
called _Sri Rama_. It is possible that this was Phra Rama of
Sukkothai. (See _Cathay_, 519; _Elliot_, III. 27)

[5] Mr. G Phillips supposes the name locac to be Ligor, or rather lakhon
as the Siamese call it. But it seems to me pretty clear from what has
been said the Lo-kok though including Ligor, is a different name from
Lakhon. The latter is a corruption of the Sanskrit, _Nagara_, "city."

CHAPTER VIII.

OF THE ISLAND CALLED PENTAM, AND THE CITY MALAIUR

When you leave Locac and sail for 500 miles towards the south, you come to
an island called PENTAM, a very wild place. All the wood that grows
thereon consists of odoriferous trees.[NOTE 1] There is no more to say
about it; so let us sail about sixty miles further between those two
Islands. Throughout this distance there is but four paces' depth of water,
so that great ships in passing this channel have to lift their rudders,
for they draw nearly as much water as that.[NOTE 2]

And when you have gone these 60 miles, and again about 30 more, you come
to an Island which forms a Kingdom, and is called MALAIUR. The people have
a King of their own, and a peculiar language. The city is a fine and noble
one, and there is great trade carried on there. All kinds of spicery are
to be found there, and all other necessaries of life.[NOTE 3]

NOTE 1.--_Pentam_, or as in Ram. _Pentan_, is no doubt the Bintang of our
maps, more properly BENTAN, a considerable Island at the eastern extremity
of the Straits of Malacca. It appears in the list, published by Dulaurier
from a Javanese Inscription, of the kingd