[56]. Idem.
[57]. Forrest's Voyage to New Guinea, 1779.
[58]. Sarawak, Hugh Low, 1848.
[59]. Hunt, op. cit.
[60]. Dias, in 1487.
[61]. "Antiquity of Chinese Trade," J. R. Logan in the Journal of the Indian Archipelago, 1848.
[62]. Forrest, op. cit.
[63]. Logan, op. cit.
[64]. Mercator's map gives Melano, which confirms this supposition. Other places on the Sarawak coast mentioned in this map are Tamaio-baio, Barulo (Bintulu), Puchavarao (Muka), Tamenacrim, and Tamaratos. The first and two last cannot be identified. Tama is of course for tanah, land, and the last name simply means in Malay, the land of hundreds—of many people, which the first name may also imply. Varao being man in Spanish and Portuguese, Puchavarao means the place of the Pucha (Muka) people—Pucha also being a transcriber's error for Puka. It was near this place that the Portuguese captain, who afterwards became a Bruni pangiran (p. [42]) was wrecked, and also near this place on Cape Sirik, a point which is continually advancing seaward, that some forty to fifty years ago the remains of a wreck were discovered a considerable distance from the sea, and so must have belonged to a ship wrecked many years before. When Rentap's stronghold in the Saribas was captured by the present Rajah in 1861, an old iron cannon dated 1515 was found there. Traditions exist pointing to wrecks and to the existence of hidden treasure at two or three places along the coast.
[65]. Meaning queen-consort.