Rigel Kent

Cukuplah sudah Allah memberi Senang sentosa di dalam negeri Bersukacita sepanjang hari Selagi ada hidup Permaisuri 2.18 Permaisuri yang tua besar daulatnya Sangat mustajab apa katanya Cinta Baginda sangatlah padanya Dari muda sampai hari tuanya 2.19 Baginda sangat segan dan malu Sekarang ini dan tempoh dahulu Apa katanya tiada dilalu Mesyuarat padanya apa yang perlu 2.20 . . . and then, in other carriages, we drove to the Sultan's pretty villa, Tyersall, some two miles out Singapore, where we had (Liberian) coffee and cream, a luxury in the tropics, and examined His Highness's collection of In 1883, the Sultan visited Hong Kong, Japan, and China. Chinese and Japanese curios , imported by himself. The Sultana lives at Tyersall. She is no longer young; but the Sultan esteems her highly, and co

Situated at the tip of Sumatra, Samudra-Pasai was once a very important seaport in the Malay World. What sets the state apart is its historical distinction as the first Islamic kingdom in the far east, with its establishment likely dating back to the 13th century. The etymological origin of the name of the port town can be found in Hikayat Raja Pasai, the oldest Malay historical fiction. The unnamed author of the Hikayat would like us to believe that the names of Samudra and Pasai were both inspired by animals. And the two creatures first encountered each other in a rainforest. Legend has it that Merah Silau and his sidekick Si Pasai (سفاسی) fled to the Forest of Jrn (جرن) in order to run away from his older brother Merah Hasum. It didn't take long for Pasai to start barking on an elevated terrain. Merah Silau followed the barks and stumbled upon a cat-sized ant. Pasai the dog and Semut Raya the giant ant in the Forest of Jrn. Pas

To fully appreciate the events leading to the cancellation of Malaka the Fruit , we must first roll our clock back to medieval Melaka. Enter the first paragraph of Eredia's Description of Malacca (1613): Malaca significa Mirabolanos , fructa de hua arvore plantada ao longo de hum ribeiro chamdo Aerlele , que dece das fontes do outeyro de Buquet China pera o mar , daquella costa de terra firma de Viontana . . . This long-forgotten literary gem was written by a Bugis-Portuguese muggle when he was 50-year-old. It is jammed with data so valuable it is practically the vip area of Melaka's history. First things first Before we attempt to e.g. ChatGPT: “Malaca means Mirabelle plums, fruit from a tree planted along a stream called Aerlele, which descends from the sources of the Buquet China hill to the sea, along that coast of mainland Viontana . . ." crack open Eredia's time

The opening paragraph in Eredia's Description of Malacca (1613) is loaded with valuable data: Malaca significa Mirabolanos , fructa de hua arvore plantada ao longo de hum ribeiro chamdo Aerlele , que dece das fontes do outeyro de Buquet China pera o mar , daquella costa de terra firma de Viontana . . . J. V. G. Mills (1930) translation of this passage is now about 90-year-old and is therefore a little terse, partly because it retains Eredia's toponyms (see Figure 1) in their archaic forms: “ Malaca means Myrobalans , the fruit of a tree growing along the banks of a river called the Aerlele, which flows down from its source on the hill of Buquet China to the sea, on the coast of the mainland of Ujontana." Figure 1. Eredia's map of the city of Melaka. Eredia must have seen the Mirabolanos trees and probably also tasted the fruit . Note that Eredia's interviewee emphasized the fruit and not tree of Malaka, which is p