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then after a day's journey one comes to the country of Ku-tan^
(lir a); t^6n after half a day's journey one reaches the territory of
Pon-t'o-lang2 (^ [Jg Then after two days' travel
»]J^). one reaches Mount
Ktin-t'u-nung' (|| ^ ^). Then after five days' travel one comes to a
5 strait which the Barharians call CM* (^). From the south to the north it
is 100 li. On the northern shore is the country of Lo-yue^ (^ ^; on the
•southern coast is the country of Fo-shi' (-^ ^),
«To the east of the country of Fo-shi, travelling by water for four or
five days, one comes to the country of Ho-ling' (§5f f^); it is the largest
10 of the islands of the south. Then east(west?)ward, going out of the strait,
after three days, one comes to the country of Ko-ko-song-chi(orti)8 (^ ^
i^ fVc or ^g;), which is an island separated at the north-east point from
Fo-shi. The people of this country are pirates and cruel; sailors dread
them.
15 «0n the northern coast (of the strait) is the country of Ko-lo^ ("^ ^),
and to the west of Ko-lo is the country of Ko-ku-lo i»
(^ ^ ^), Then
from Ko-ko-s6ng-chi, after four or five days' journey, one comes to the island
of Shong-tOng" (^ ^[J).
Then westward, and after five days' journey
1) Eanthara, the Sanskrit name of the present Nha-trang. Pelliot, ibid., 217.
20 2) Fap(}nraDga, the present Phanrang, see infra, p. 51.
3) Pulo Condore. See infra, p. 50, n. 10.
4) Pelliot sees in this the Strait of Malacca. I agree with Gerini (J. R. A- S., 1305,
505) in thinking it was the Singapore strait.
5) The southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula, or Ligor. Gerini, Kesearches on
25 Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Asia, 820.
6) Eastern Sumatra. According to our test the voyage from Canton to E. Sumatra occupied
20 days; this is exactly the time taken by the pilgrim I-tsiug to make it, Chavannes, Eelig.
emin., 119.
7) Java, but see infra, p. 78, n. 1.
30 8) Possibly the Brouwers islands, as suggested by Pelliot, op.cit.,839. Gerini, Eesearches,
816, 817 identifies this island with Pulo Medang, the old designation of which was Kukor. It lies
W. of the mouth of the Siak river, E. coast of Sumatra or Pulo Siak.
9) In all likelihood the Kalah of the Arabs of the ninth century, which Groeneveldt,
Notes, 122, has identified with the present Kora on the W. coast of Malacca in about 7° N.
35 lat. — Gerini, Asiat. Quart., 3d series, XIII, 133, and Pelliot, op. cit., 339 accept this identi-
fication. Gerini, Eesearches, 817, thinks Kia Tan's Ko-lo may be Ealapang near the TJmbai
river, just below Malacca. _,
10) Pelliot, Op. cit., 343 thinks this is the Qaqola (XliSlS) of Ibn Batuta, the Angkola river
on the W. coast of Sumatra, and an affluent of the Batang gadis. This identification seems to me
40 impossible since Ko-lo was on the Malay Peninsula, and the two seem to have been conterminous.
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Gerini, Eesearches, 444, n. 2 suggests, with great plausibility, either Kelantan or Ligor on the
E. coast of the Malay Peninsula.
1 1) P e 1 1 i 1, Op. cit., 354, thinks this may have been the Deli or Langkat district of Sumatra.
Gerini, Op. cit., 817, says it is the Serdang district near Deli.
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