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ISBN 13: 978-1-4094-1749-1 (hbk)

WORKS ISSUED BY

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THE SUMA ORIENTAL OF TOM PIRES
AND
THE BOOK OF FRANCISCO RODRIGUES

SECOND SERIES
No. XC

COUNCIL

OF

THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY

1944

________________

SIR WILLIAM FOSTER, C.I.E., President.

THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL BALDWIN OF BEWDLEY, K.G., P.C., Vice-President.

ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM GOODENOUGH, G.C.B., M.V.O., Vice-President.

JAMES A. WILLIAMSON, ESQ., D.LIT., Vice-President.

THE ADMIRALTY (L. G. CARR LAUGHTON, ESQ.).

J. N. L. BAKER, ESQ., M.A., B.LITT.

SIR RICHARD BURN, C.S.I.

THE GUILDHALL LIBRARY (RAYMOND SMITH, ESQ.).

PROFESSOR V. T. HARLOW, D.LITT.

A. R. HINKS, ESQ., C.B.E., F.R.S.

G. H. T. KIMBLE, ESQ., M.A.

SIR GILBERT LAITHWAITE, K.C.I.E., C.S.I.

MALCOLM LETTS, ESQ., F.S.A.

PROFESSOR KENNETH MASON, M.C., R.E,

WALTER OAKESHOTT, ESQ., M.A.

N. M. PENZER, ESQ., M.A., D.LITT.

PROFESSOR E. PRESTAGE, D.LITT.

S. T. SHEPPARD, ESQ.

PROFESSOR E. G. R. TAYLOR, D.SC.

R. A. WILSON, ESQ.

EDWARD HEAWOOD, ESQ., M.A., Treasurer.

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Frontispiece of the Book of Francisco Rodrigues

THE SUMA ORIENTAL OF
TOME PIRES

AN ACCOUNT OF THE EAST, FROM THE RED SEA
TO JAPAN, WRITTEN IN MALACCA AND INDIA IN
15121515

AND

THE BOOK OF
FRANCISCO RODRIGUES

RUTTER OF A VOYAGE IN THE RED SEA, NAUTICAL RULES,
ALMANACK AND MAPS, WRITTEN AND DRAWN IN THE
EAST BEFORE 1515

Translated from the Portuguese MS. in the Bibliothque
de la Chambre des Dputs,Paris,and edited by

ARMANDO CORTESO

VOLUME II

LONDON
PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
1944

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS GLASGOW

SUMA ORIENTAL

WHICH GOES FROM THE RED SEA
TO CHINA

COMPILED BY TOM PIRES

[SIXTH BOOK]

OF MALACCA

[Early historyNeighbouring LandsNative
AdministrationTradePortuguese Occupation]

[EARLY HISTORY]

T HIS is the beginning of the town of Malacca, according to various authors, and the truth is gathered from what the majority affirm1.

According to the Javanese, Malacca is said to be peopled in this way, which is set down in their chronicle and which is widely confirmed by them. The Javanese affirm that in the year 1360to convert their dates to oursthere was a king in Java called Raja Quda, which means King of the horses, who had a son called Raja Baya, alias Sam Agy Jaya Baya, which in the Javanese language means Great lord of nations. This one had a son called Sam Ajy Dandan Gimdoz, which means Greater than his predecessors in the said language; and this one had a son called Sam Ajy Jaya Taton, which means Lord of all.

This Sam Agy Jaya Taton died without sons, and the people together set up two chief mandarins and made one king and changed his name of Sam Agy, and he was called Batara, which means Pure king.

This Batara Tamarill1 had a son whom they called Biatara Curipan, who succeeded to the kingdom of Java. In his time a quarter of the land of Java rose up in revolt, and a mandarin rose up and called himself Biatara Caripanan uda as will be told in the proper place.

This Batara Caripan, in whose time a quarter of the land of Java was lost, had a son who succeeded in his place and was afterwards called Bataram Matar, and he was a great man of justice.

And he had a son whom they called Bataram Sinagara, and they say that this one was mad and the kingdom was given to one of his sons, who was called Bataram Matar like his grandfather. This Batar Matarm had a son who is reigning in Java in our time, who is called Batara Vigiaja, which means The great wise king. His captain is the Guste Pate as will be told at length in the description of Java.

The Javanese say that in the time of Batara Tomarjll, king of the lands and lord of the isles, he had as tributaries: Sam Agy Simgapura who was king of that channel, his tributary and vassal, and it is about two hundred and forty leagues from Java to Singapore among the islands; and that Sam Agi Palimbaowhich means Lord of allwas also his tributary vassal, and it is about a hundred leagues from Palembang (Palimbao) to Java and almost open sea (this is taking the longest distance; because the nearer way, bordering on Sunda, is about twenty leagues); and Sam Agy Tamjompurawhich means Lord of the precious stones was also his tributary vassal, and it is almost seventy leagues from Java to Tamjompura. This is the land of diamonds.

When Sam Agi Palimbao died, he left a son, a great knight and a very warlike man, whom they called Paramjura, which means The bravest man in the Palembang Javanese tongue. He was married to a niece of Batara Tamarill who was called Paramjure1, and when he realised how nobly he was married and how great was his power in the neighbouring islands which were under his brother-in-laws jurisdiction, he rose against the vassalage and obedience and called himself the Great Exempt.

When Batara Tamarill, king of Java, received the news that Sam Agy Palimbo had changed his name and called himself Mjura which means Exempt, he decided to descend on him with his power and the help of the king of Tanjong Puting, and take the land of Palembang from him and kill and destroy him.

Having decided this he collected his people in ships and bore down upon the island of Banka which is next to Palembang and destroyed it, and they say that he killed everyone there because they were Palembang people, and that he must have killed a thousand inhabitants of the said island; and from there he went to Palembang, which must be a league or two away, and began to lay waste the places; and when

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