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9) It is custamary in China for hidg officials to receive the visits of their subordinates
on the first and fifteenth of each moon, and these days are the ordinary holidays of the people,
on which they make visits.
^°) WK f^ ^^^ ^^^^ character stands for ^ oto go to», Bto travels. Pei-wbn-yan-fu,
5 46,98 gives several quotations of analogous terms; e. g.,
jjjg_ ^^^ «a farewell dinner to a parting
friends also «a viaticumn.
11) The feast of Kuan-yin, the patron of sailors, see supra, p. 69. Buddhism was not unknown
in Borneo in mediaeval times, though the date of its appearance there is uncertain. See Lassen,
Indische Altherthumsk. IV, 582. Crawfurd, J. E. G. S., XXIII, 83.
10 12) Can these pearls be the same Pigafetta speaks of in his Narrative? «They say that the
king of Burne (Brunei, W. Coest of Borneo) has two pearls as large as a hen's eggs, and so
perfectly round that if placed on a smooth table they cannot be made to stand stiH». See First
Voyage round the World by Magellan (Hakl. Soc. edit.), 117, 120. -j^ '^ «humaushape»,
according to the Fang-yea ^ossary in K'ang-hsi tzi-tien. The statue is placed in contrast with
15 the pearls.
13) The full text of this letter of the ruler of Borneo is given in Sung-shi, 489,18. The
king's name is there said to be Hiang-ta (fS] ^) and that of the envoy P'u Lu-sie (»^
said in his letter to the Emperor of China concerning this envoy: ((Recently
fM. ^)0- '^^^ ^^"^S
there was a trader, P'u Lu-sie by name, whose ship arrived at the mouth of my river; I sent a
20 man to invite him to my place, and then he told me he came from China. The people of my
country were much pleased at this, and, preparing a ship, asked this stranger to guide them to
the Court ....» See Groeneveldt, Notes, 109. It appears from this that it is to the enterprising
Arab traders of Canton, or Ts'iian-chou, that belongs the credit of opening relations between
China and Borneo.
25 14) Sung-shi, 489,19* gives the name of the king of Borneo as Si-li-ma-jo (^^ j||
ffiR r^-) which may be Sri Maharaja or Maradja. The mission sailed back from Ts'iian-chou.
15) These islands must probably be looked for in the Celebes and Moluccas; there is nothing
to indicate how the nineteen characters which give their names should be grouped. The division
here adopted is purely tentative. The first name may be Serang or Coram, the third Gilolo. Wu-
30 li-ma may be the same as the Wu-li (/^ JB) of Yuan-shi, 162 which Groeneveldt, Notes,
27, thought might be Bali, but this seems doubtful. — Tan-yu suggests Ternate, and Ma-jo
Mahono, but none of these islands produce any kind of gharu-wood.
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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
35 , IWa-i (ifi ^).
The country of Ma-i is to the north of P'o-ni \ Over a thousand families
are settled together along both banks of a creek (or, gully ^). The natives
cover themselves with a sheet of cotton cloth (^ ^ ^B ^),
lower part of the body with a sarong (lit., «loin-cloth» ^ ^).
40 There are bronze images of gods ('^),
or hide the
of unknown origin, scattered
about in the grassy wilderness 2. Pirates seldom come to this country.
When trading ships enter the anchorage, they stop in front of the
officials place, for that is the place for bartering of the country. After a ship