a just punishment for his ingratitude.[1] Having drawn together a number of the before-mentioned natives, with whom he established a new colony, he gave the name of Malacca to the rising city, signifying in the language of the country a banished man,[2] as a memorial of his own fortune. The first king of Malacca was Xaque Darxa or Sheikh Darshah,[3] called by some authors Raal Saib, who was the son of Paramisôra, and was subject to the King of Siam; but from whom his successors revolted.[4] In the Chinese Records, Aungot's Collection, quoted by Colonel Yule in his Marco Polo, vol. ii.
- ↑ The account given in Leyden's translation of the Sejarah Malâyu differs entirely from this, making Malacca to be founded by Râja Iskander Shah, the ruler of Singapore (in proper succession), on his expulsion from that eity by the Javanese despatched by the Bêtara of Majapahit. De Barros' account is the most trustworthy. The Chronicler in the Sejarah possibly preferred admitting defeat by Javanese, probably the original founders of Singapore, in place of the Siamese, long a national enemy, and of a different creed. According to Leyden's translation of the Sĕjârah Malâyu, Raja Iskander Shah, after settling on the Muar for a time, gave it up and removed to Sangang (Sungei?) Ujong, where he left a "mantri" (minister), and proceeded to Bertam (a place 8 or 9 miles up the Malacca River, but called, in the Sĕjârah, a river), where he had a "pĕlandok" hunt, and a white "pělandok" was so plucky as to resist one of the dogs and drive it into the water; the Raja was much pleased at this incident, and finding the tree under which he was waiting was the "malaka" tree, decided to found a city there and call it after the tree. Mr. W. E. Maxwell has pointed out that this tradition closely resembles a Guzrâti one, and is probably borrowed from it. See Journal, Royal Asiatic Society, January, 1881.
- ↑ Said to mean so in Javanese, but it is no doubt taken from the tree of that name, Emblica officinalis, which grows in the country.
- ↑ The Commentaries of Albuquerque state that he visited China, and became the Emperor's vassal, and got leave to coin money, which he did on his return, of pewter called "cash."
- ↑ The Commentaries of Albuquerque state that Malacca became independent of Siam about 90 years before Albuquerque attacked it.
