The Characters
Tsui-Lan Are Pronounced Ch'ui Lan In Amoy, Out Of Which It Is Easy To Make
Cueran.
The Chinese omitted the initial syllable and called them the Cueran
Islands, while Marco Polo called them the Nocueran
Islands." Schlegel,
T'oung Pao, IX., p. 182-190, thinks that the Andaman Islands are alone
represented by Ts'ui-lan; the Nicobar being the old country of the Lo-ch'a,
and in modern time, Mao shan, "Hat Island." Pelliot, Bul. Ecole Ext.
Orient, IV., 1904, pp. 354-5, is inclined to accept Phillip's opinion. He
says that Mao-shan is one island, not a group of islands; it is not proved
that the country of the Lo ch'a is the Nicobar Islands; the name of
Lo-hing-man, Naked Barbarians, is, contrary to Schlegel's opinion, given
to the Nicobar as well as to the Andaman people; the name of Andaman
appears in Chinese for the first time during the thirteenth century in Chao
Ju-kwa under the form Yen-t'o-man; Chao Ju-kwa specifies that going from
Lambri (Sumatra) to Ceylon, it is an unfavourable wind which makes ships
drift towards these islands; on the other hand, texts show that the
Ts'ui-lan islands were on the usual route from Sumatra to Ceylon. - Gerini,
Researches, p. 396, considers that Ts'ui-lan shan is but the phonetic
transcript of Tilan-chong Island, the north-easternmost of the
Nicobars. - See Hirth and Rockhill's Chau Ju-kwa, p. 12n. - Sansk.
narikera, "cocoanuts," is found in Necuveram.
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