Some geographers of the 16th century, following the old editions which
carried the travellers south-east or south-west of Java to the land of
Boeach (for Locac), introduced in their maps a continent in that
situation. (See e.g. the map of the world by P. Plancius in Linschoten.)
And this has sometimes been adduced to prove an early knowledge of
Australia. Mr. Major has treated this question ably in his interesting
essay on the early notices of Australia.
[1] [From the Hsing-ch'a Sheng-lan, by Fei Hsin.]
[2] The extract of which this is the substance I owe to the kindness of
Professor J. Summers, formerly of King's College.
[3] I am happy to express my obligation to the remarks of my lamented
friend Lieutenant Garnier, for light on this subject, which has led to
an entire reform in the present note. (See his excellent Historical
Essay, forming ch. v. of the great "Voyage d'Exploration en
Indo-Chine," pp. 136-137).
[4] The Kakula of Ibn Batuta was probably on the coast of Locac.
The Kamarah Komar of the same traveller and other Arab writers,
I have elsewhere suggested to be Khmer, or Kamboja Proper. (See
I.B. IV. 240; Cathay, 469, 519.) Kakula and Kamarah
were both in "Mul-Java"; and the king of this undetermined
country, whom Wassaf states to have submitted to Kublai in 1291, was
called Sri Rama.
