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1)13 CENTRAL JAVA. 83
(((Java money))); from which it may be seen that this country is (identical with)
Sho-p'o^
Dwellings are built in the same fashion as in Sin-t'o. There is much
rice in this country; very wealthy families keep as much as ten thousand piculs
5 in their granaries.
There is a tree called po-lo-mi (y^ ^ ^ the jack-fruit). The fruit
is like a pumpkin, the skin like that of the chestnut, the pulp like that of
the mandarin orange. It is extremely sweet and well-flavoured*. There are also
lichees, bananas and sugar-cane, in all respects the same as those of China,
10 with this difference, however, that the lichee, when sun-dried, will cure bowel
complaint; that the bananas grow a foot long, and sugar-cane to the height
of ten feet.
The juice of the latter, with the addition of a drug, is brewed into a
liquor superior to (that derived from) the cocoanut ^
15 The products of the soil are, on the whole, not different from those of
Sho-p'o. There is a great abundance of pepper. At the right season and in
good years, twenty-five taels of ((trade money» (^ §^)
twenty packages (^)
will buy from ten to
of pepper, each package holding fifty pecks (shong). In
years of dearth, or in times of disturbance, the same sum will buy only half
20 that amount.
The pepper-gatherers suffer greatly from the acrid fumes they have to
inhale, and are commonly afflicted with headaclie (malaria) which yields to
doses of (ssl)-ch^uan-kung.
As cinnabar is much used in cosmetics (:J^ ^) by the Barbarian
23 women and also for dyeing the finger nails and silk clothing of women,
foreign traders look upon these two articles as staples of trade ®.
Traders are treated generously; they are not charged expenses for either
harborage or board.
This country is adjacent (j^)
30 are dependencies of Sho-p'o ':
to the following countries, all of which
Pai-hua-yuan ("g" :^ g) Ma-li (ffi ^)
Ma-tung (0 ^)
Ta-pan (^ i^)
Hi-ning(fri f
)
35 5 Jung-ya-lu (5^ ^ ^)
10 Niu-lun {^ |^)
Tan-jung-wu-lo {^ ^ i^ W)
Ti-wu(lg^)
Ping-ya (2p ^)
Tung-ki (^ |l^)
Ta-kang (^ |^)
Huang-ma-chu (^ ^ |^)
I-wu {% ^)
i5 Nu-ku {j^X %)