- H.C.]
NOTE 4. - No one has been able to identify this state. Its position,
however, must have been near PEDIR, and perhaps it was practically the
same. Pedir was the most flourishing of those Sumatran states at the
appearance of the Portuguese.
Rashiduddin names among the towns of the Archipelago Dalmian, which may
perhaps be a corrupt transcript of Dagroian.
Mr. Phillips's Chinese extracts, already cited, state that west of Sumatra
(proper) were two small kingdoms, the first Naku-urh, the second Liti.
Naku-urh, which seems to be the Ting-'ho-'rh of Pauthier's extracts,
which sent tribute to the Kaan, and may probably be Dagroian as Mr.
Phillips supposes, was also called the Kingdom of Tattooed Folk.
[Mr. G. Phillips wrote since (J.R.A.S., July 1895, p. 528): "Dragoian has
puzzled many commentators, but on (a) Chinese chart ... there is a country
called Ta-hua-mien, which in the Amoy dialect is pronounced Dakolien,
in which it is very easy to recognise the Dragoian, or Dagoyam, of Marco
Polo." In his paper of The Seaports of India and Ceylon (Jour. China
B.R.A.S., xx. 1885, p. 221), Mr. Phillips, referring to his Chinese Map,
already said: Ta-hsiao-hua-mien, in the Amoy dialect Toa-sio-hoe (or
Ko)-bin, "The Kingdom of the Greater and Lesser Tattooed Faces." The
Toa-Ko-bin, the greater tattooed-face people, most probably represents the
Dagroian, or Dagoyum, of Marco Polo.
