"Yule's identification of
Kayal with the Kolkhoi of Ptolemy is supported by the Sung History, which
calls it both Ko-ku-lo and Ku-lo; it was known at the beginning of the
tenth century and was visited by several Chinese priests. In 1411 the Ming
Dynasty actually called it Ka-i-leh and mention a chief or king there
named Ko-pu-che-ma."
XXII., p. 376. "OF THE KINGDOM OF COILUM. - So also their wine they make
from [palm-] sugar; capital drink it is, and very speedily it makes a man
drunk."
Chau Ju-kwa in Nan p'i (Malabar) mentions the wine (p. 89): "For wine they
use a mixture of honey with cocoanuts and the juice of a flower, which
they let ferment." Hirth and Rockhill remark, p. 91, that the Kambojians
had a drink which the Chinese called mi-t'ang tsiu, to prepare which
they used half honey and half water, adding a ferment.
XXII., p. 380 n. "This word [Sappan] properly means Japan, and seems
to have been given to the wood as a supposed product of that region."
"The word sappan is not connected with Japan. The earliest records of
this word are found in Chinese sources. Su-fang su-pwan, to be restored
to 'supang or 'spang, 'sbang; Caesalpinia sappan, furnishing the
sappan wood, is first described as a product of Kiu-chen (Tong King) in
the Nan fang ts'ao mi chuang, written by Ki Han at the end of the third
or beginning of the fourth century.
