B., which comes from Angkor and for which Campa
is a part of the Dakshinapatha, of the southern country. But the capital
of this rival State of Kamboja would thus be very near the Treang province
where inscriptions have been found with the names of Bhavavarman and of
Icanavarman. It is true that in 627, the King of Kamboja, according to the
Chinese Annals (Nouv. Mel. As. I. p. 84), had subjugated the kingdom of
Fu-nan identified by Yule and Garnier with Campa. Abel Remusat (Nouv.
Mel. As. I. pp. 75 and 77) identifies it with Tong-king and Stan. Julien
(J. As. 4 deg. Ser. X. p. 97) with Siam. (Inscrip. Sanscrites du
Cambodge, 1885, pp. 69-70, note.)
Sir Henry Yule writes (l.c. p. 657): "We have said that the Arab Sanf, as
well as the Greek Zabai, lay west of Cape Cambodia. This is proved by the
statement that the Arabs on their voyage to China made a ten days' run from
Sanf to Pulo Condor." But Abulfeda (transl. by Guyard, II. ii. p. 127)
distinctly says that the Komar Peninsula (Khmer) is situated west of the
Sanf Peninsula; between Sanf and Komar there is not a day's journey by sea.
We have, however, another difficulty to overcome.
I agree with Sir Henry Yule and Marsden that in ch. vii. infra, p. 276, the
text must be read, "When you leave Chamba," instead of "When you leave
Java." Coming from Zayton and sailing 1500 miles, Polo arrives at Chamba;
from Chamba, sailing 700 miles he arrives at the islands of Sondur and
Condur, identified by Yule with Sundar Fulat (Pulo Condore); from Sundar
Fulat, after 500 miles more, he finds the country called Locac; then he
goes to Pentam (Bintang, 500 miles), Malaiur, and Java the Less (Sumatra).
Ibn Khordadhbeh's itinerary agrees pretty well with Marco Polo's, as
Professor De Goeje remarks to me:
