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. Footnote 65: Meaning queen-consort. Footnote 66: Probably the Kalaka; the Malays in the Rejang came from that river. Footnote 67: _A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo_, 1718. Footnote 68: The Dutch confiscated all foreign ships they could seize found trading in the Archipelago without permission from them to do so. Footnote 69: Borneo and Sumatra were then the great pepper producing countries. Footnote 70: Forrest, _op. cit._, confirms this, and adds "the Dutch forbid the natives to manufacture cloth." Footnote 71: Sir Hugh Low, _op. cit._ Footnote 72: Son of the late Sir Hugh Low, G.C.M.G. He served in the Sarawak Civil Service from 1869 to 1887, in which year he died. His knowledge of the natives, their languages, and customs, was unsurpassed. The notes he left formed the basis of Ling Roth's work, _The Natives of Borneo_, 1896. Footnote 73: This was the _serah_, or forced trade formerly in force in all Malayan countries; and it appears to be still so, in a modified form, in Sumatra. Footnote 74: The Sarawak Malays were also so forced to mine by Pangiran Makota, and this forced labour was one of the principal causes of the rebellion of 1836-40 against the Sultan's Government. Footnote 75: This happened after this man had been banished by the late Rajah from Sarawak. See Chap. III. p. 87, for the fate he met and so richly merited. Footnote 76: Famous in Malay legends throughout the East as Nakoda Ragam, a renowned sea rover and conqueror. Footnote 77: W. P. Groeneveldt, _Essays relating to Indo-China_, 1887. [Illustration: KUCHING IN 1840. (The picture at the end of this chapter is taken from exactly the same point of view.)]