And The Real Chronology Will Be About Midway
Between The Estimates Of De Couto And Of Alboquerque.
Hence Malacca did
not exist for a century, more or less, after Polo's voyage.
[Mr. C.O. Blagden, in a paper on the Mediaeval Chronology of Malacca
(Actes du XI'e Cong. Int. Orient. Paris, 1897), writes (p. 249) that "if
Malacca had been in the middle of the 14th century anything like the great
emporium of trade which it certainly was in the 15th, Ibn Batuta would
scarcely have failed to speak of it." The foundation of Malacca by Sri
Iskandar Shah in 1252, according to the Sejarah Malayu "must be put at
least 125 years later, and the establishment of the Muhammadan religion
there would then precede by only a few years the end of the 14th century,
instead of taking place about the end of the 13th, as is generally
supposed" (p. 251). (Cf. G. Schlegel, Geog. Notes, XV.) - H.C.]
Mr. Logan supposes that the form Malayu-r may indicate that the Malay
language of the 13th century "had not yet replaced the strong
naso-guttural terminals by pure vowels." We find the same form in a
contemporary Chinese notice. This records that in the 2nd year of the Yuen,
tribute was sent from Siam to the Emperor. "The Siamese had long been at
war with the Maliyi or MALIURH, but both nations laid aside their feud
and submitted to China." (Valentyn, V. p. 352; Crawford's Desc.
Dict. art. Malacca; Lassen, IV.
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