c. 1430.—"He afterwards went to a fine city of the island Taprobana, which island is called by the natives Sciamuthera."—Conti, in India in XVth. Cent., 9.
1459.—"Isola Siamotra."—Fra Mauro.
1498.—"... Camatarra is of the Christians; it is distant from Calicut a voyage of 30 days with a good wind."—Roteiro, 109.
1510.—"Wherefore we took a junk and went towards Sumatra to a city called Pider."—Varthema, 228.
1522.—"... We left the island of Timor, and entered upon the great sea called Lant Chidol, and taking a west-south-west course, we left to the right and the north, for fear of the Portuguese, the island of Zumatra, anciently called Taprobana; also Pegu, Bengala, Urizza, Chelim (see [KLING]) where are the Malabars, subjects of the King of [Narsinga]."—Pigafetta, Hak. Soc. 159.
1572.—
"Dizem, que desta terra, co' as possantes
Ondas o mar intrando, dividio
A nobre ilha Samatra, que já d'antes
Juntas ambas a gente antigua vio: