Nous savons, d'autre part, que le pays en question
avait sa capitale dans l'interieur de l'ile, mais qu'il s'etendait dans
l'Est jusqu'a la mer et que la cote orientale a ete designee par les
textes chinois du VII'e siecle sous le nom de Mo-lo-yeou, Mo-lo-yu =
Malayu, c'est-a-dire par le nom de l'Etat ou royaume dont elle faisait
partie." (G. FERRAND, J. As., July-Aug., 1918, pp. 72-73.)
VIII., p. 282.
MALACCA.
See G. FERRAND, Malaka, le Malayu et Malayur, J.As., 1918. Besides
Malayu of Sumatra, there was a city of Malayur which M. Ferrand thinks is
Malacca.
VIII., p. 282 n. "This informs us that Malacca first acknowledged itself
as tributary to the Empire in 1405, the king being Sili-ju-eul-sula(?)."
In this name Si-li-ju-eul-su-la, one must read [Chinese] pa, instead of
[Chinese], and read Si-li-pa-eul-su-la = Siri Paramisura (Cri
Paramacvara). (PELLIOT, Bul. Ecole franc. Ext. Orient, IV., July-Sept.,
1904, p. 772.)
IX., p. 285. "They [the rhinoceros] do no mischief, however, with the
horn, but with the tongue alone; for this is covered all over with long
and strong prickles [and when savage with any one they crush him under
their knees and then rasp him with their tongue]."
"Its tongue is like the burr of a chestnut." (CHAU JU-KWA, P. 233.)
IX., p. 289.
SUMATRA.
In 1017, an embassy was sent to the Court of China by Haji Sumutrabhumi,
"the king of the land of Sumutra" (Sumatra). The envoys had a letter in
golden characters and tribute in the shape of pearls, ivory, Sanscrit,
books folded between boards, and slaves; by an imperial edict they were
permitted to see the emperor and to visit some of the imperial buildings.
When they went back an edict was issued addressed to their king,
accompanied by various presents, calculated to please them. (GROENEVELT,
Notes on the Malay Archipelago, p. 65.) G. Ferrand writes (J. As.,
Mars-Avril, 1917, p. 335) that according to the texts quoted by him in his
article the island of Sumatra was known to the Chinese under the name
Sumuta = Sumutra, during the first years of the eleventh century, nearly
300 years before Marco Polo's voyage; and under the name of Sumutra, by
the Arab sailors, previously to the first voyage of the Portuguese in
Indonesia.
IX., p. 287.
FERLEC.
Prof. Pelliot writes to me that the Ferlec of Marco Polo is to be found
several times in the Yuan Shi, year 1282 and following, under the forms
Fa-li-lang (Chap. 12, fol. 4 v.), Fa-li-la (Chap. 13, fol.
