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of the Malays or Malaiurs of old voyagers, existent in the times of Marco Polo [who] mentions no kingdom or city in Java Minor till he arrives at the kingdom of Felech or Perlak. And this is just as might be expected, as the channel in the Straits of Malacca leads on the north-eastern side out of sight of Sumatra ; and the course, after clearing the shoals near Selangore, being direct towards Diamond Point, near which . . . the tower of Perlak is situated. Thus we see that the Venetian traveller describes the first city or kingdom in the great island that he arrived at. . . . [After Basman and Samara] Polo mentions Dragoian . . . from the context, and following Marco Polo's course, we would place it west from his last city or Kingdom Samara ; and we make no doubt, if the name is not much corrupted, it may yet be identified in one of the villages of the coast at this present time. . . . By the Malay annalist, Lambri was west of Samara ; consecutively it was also westerly from Samara by Marco Polo's enumeration. Fanfur . . . is the last kingdom named by Marco Polo [coming from the east], and the first by the Malay annalist [coming from the west] ; and as it is known to modern geographers, this corroboration doubly settles the identity and position of all. Thus all the six cities or kingdoms mentioned by Marco Polo were situated on the north coast of Sumatra, now commonly known as the Pedir coast." I hare given the conclusion arrived at by Mr. J. T. Thomson in his paper, Marco Polo's Six Kingdoms doms or Cities in Java Minor, identified in translations from the ancient Malay Annals, which appeared in the Proc. R. G. S. XX. pp. 215224, after the second edition of this Book was published and Sir H. Yule added the following note (Proc., l.c., p. 224) : " Mr. Thomson, as he mentions, has not seen my edition of Marco Polo, nor, apparently, a paper on the subject of these kingdoms by the late Mr. J. R. Logan, in his Journal of the Indian Archipelago, to which reference is made in the notes to Marco Polo. In the said paper and notes the quotations and conclusions of Mr. Thomson have been anticipated ; and Fanszir also, which he leaves undetermined, identified. "—H. C.]
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CHAPTER XII.
CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF NECUVERAN.
-~ .WHEN you leave the Island of Java (the less) and the
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a 4. ' 4 NECUVERAN. In this Island they have no king nor chief,
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+' all of noble and valuable kinds of trees ; such as Red
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31 .,, There is nothing else worth relating ; so we will go
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