4 v.), Fa-eul-la (Chap. 18, fol. 8 v.); in
the first case, it is quoted near A-lu (Aru) and Kan-pai (Kampei).
- Cf. FERRAND, Textes, II., p. 670.
XI., pp. 304-5.
SAGO TREE.
Sago Palm = Sagus Rumphianus and S. Laevis (DENNYS). - "From Malay
sagu. The farinaceous pith taken out of the stem of several species of a
particular genus of palm, especially Metroxylon laeve, Mart., and M.
Rumphii, Willd., found in every part of the Indian Archipelago, including
the Philippines, wherever there is proper soil." (Hobson-Jobson.)
XII., p. 306. "In this island [Necuveran] they have no king nor chief, but
live like beasts. And I tell you they go all naked, both men and women,
and do not use the slightest covering of any kind."
We have seen (Marco Polo, II., p. 308) that Mr. G. Phillips writes
(J.R.A.S., July, 1895, p. 529) that the name Tsui-lan given to the
Nicobars by the Chinese is, he has but little doubt, "a corruption of
Nocueran, the name given by Marco Polo to the group. The characters
Tsui-lan are pronounced Ch'ui lan in Amoy, out of which it is easy to make
Cueran. The Chinese omitted the initial syllable and called them the Cueran
Islands, while Marco Polo called them the Nocueran Islands." Schlegel,
T'oung Pao, IX., p. 182-190, thinks that the Andaman Islands are alone
represented by Ts'ui-lan; the Nicobar being the old country of the Lo-ch'a,
and in modern time, Mao shan, "Hat Island." Pelliot, Bul. Ecole Ext.
Orient, IV., 1904, pp. 354-5, is inclined to accept Phillip's opinion. He
says that Mao-shan is one island, not a group of islands; it is not proved
that the country of the Lo ch'a is the Nicobar Islands; the name of
Lo-hing-man, Naked Barbarians, is, contrary to Schlegel's opinion, given
to the Nicobar as well as to the Andaman people; the name of Andaman
appears in Chinese for the first time during the thirteenth century in Chao
Ju-kwa under the form Yen-t'o-man; Chao Ju-kwa specifies that going from
Lambri (Sumatra) to Ceylon, it is an unfavourable wind which makes ships
drift towards these islands; on the other hand, texts show that the
Ts'ui-lan islands were on the usual route from Sumatra to Ceylon. - Gerini,
Researches, p. 396, considers that Ts'ui-lan shan is but the phonetic
transcript of Tilan-chong Island, the north-easternmost of the
Nicobars. - See Hirth and Rockhill's Chau Ju-kwa, p. 12n. - Sansk.
narikera, "cocoanuts," is found in Necuveram.
XIII., p. 309.
ANGAMANAIN.
"When sailing from Lan-wu-li to Si-lan, if the wind is not fair, ships may
be driven to a place called Yen-t'o-man [in Cantonese, An-t'o-man]. This
is a group of two islands in the middle of the sea, one of them being
large, the other small; the latter is quite uninhabited.
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