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more extensive than the others; they raise large numbers of horses for mili-
tary service and they have a slight knowledge of writing and counting. The
native products are laka-wood, yellow wax, fine aromatic substances and tor-
toise-shell.
5 Although Tan-jung-wu-lo has such products, the people instead of
attending to (legitimate) business, prefer going to sea for piracy, and so
foreign traders rarely come there ^^.
Notes.
1) The name Su-ki-tan does not appear in the Ling-wai-tai-ta or the Sung-shif, nor does
10 it occur in Crawfurd's list of mediaeval Javanese states. It seems to be of Indian origin, possibly
fwfca «parrot» and diina «gift». The name Subatana is found as that of a Javanese colony in
southern Borneo. Lassen, Indische Alterthumsk. IV, 533, and A. Marre, Madjapahit et Tchampa,
pp. 95—97, in Recueil de Memoires, Centenaire de I'Ecole des Langues Orientales, 1895. Gerini.
Researches, 451, suggests that Su-ki-tan was Sukadana in S. E. Sumatra.
15 It seems impossible, with only the references of Chinese authors of the Miiig period to
guide us, to locate Sukitan more closely than it is in the text, i. e., between the Sundas on the
W. and Tuban on the E. In the Ming period Sukitan was apparently a much more extensive
region. The Tung-si-yang-k'au, 4,is says of it: «its chief place is Ki-li-shi (^ ^ ^ i. e.,
Gersik) .... The people of this country go to Yau-tung ('gS *)0 i. e., Yortan, S. of Surabaya
20 on the Brantas river) to trade with the Chinese The neighbouring countries are Ssi-Iu-wa
(^B> @ 3£ ^' ^'' Surabaya) and Tu-man (^^^p
i- e., Tuban). Groeneveldt, Notes, 54.
Our author in two passages conveys the impression that he uses'the name Su-ki-tan as being
identical with Sho-p'o.
2) The Tung-si-yang-k'au, 4,i3^ quotes the Ming I-tung-chi as follows: «The Pau-lau-an
25 mountain is in the country of Su-ki-tan. All foreign ships sight this mountain before arriving. The.
summit has five peaks and there are clouds on it all the year round. (Chinese) sailors call it
Pa-na ta-shan (g,