Sunda (Western Java)

The kingdom of Sunda (Sinto) has a harbor with a depth of 60 feet.

The people are given to agriculture. They live along the shores wit houses made of poles stuck in the ground, roofed over with the bark of the coir-palm. The partitions are made with wooden boards tied with rattan.

Both men and women wrap round their loins a piece of cotton. They cut their hair, leaving it only half an inch long.

The country produces:

• pepper
• pumpkins
• sugar-cane
• bottle-gourds
• beans and egg-plants

Its pepper are small-grained, but heavy and superior to that of Tapan (Eastern Java).

It has no regular government. This causes people to be criminals. This is why foreign traders rarely go there.

12. Lamuri Eastern Sumatra

Lamuri (Kienpi) is at the the mouth of the road and is resorted to by trading ships as an anchorage. It can be reached from Palembang in half a month’s sailing.

It was a dependency of Palembang before. But after a fight, it set up its own king.

It exports:

• tin
• elephants’ tusks
• pearls

The people are fond of archery and boast of the number of people that they have killed.

5 days journey from there is Sri Lanka.