"We must, therefore, first give an account of the voyage of Henriquez Lerne. The kingdom of Sunda being one of those of the island of Java, it will be best to begin with a general description of that island, that what follows may be understood. "The land of Java we consider as two islands, whose position is from east to west, and nearly in the same parallel, in seven or eight degrees of south latitude. The total length of the two islands, according to the best authorities, is about one hundred and eighty leagues, although perhaps this is rather exaggerated. "The Javans themselves do not divide the land into two islands, but consider the whole length as constituting only one; and on the west, where it approaches Sumatra, there is a channel of ten or twelve leagues wide, through which all the navigation of eastern and western India used to pass, previous to the founding of Malacca. "A chain of very high mountains runs along the whole length of Java. Their distance from the northern coast is about twenty-five leagues. How far they are from the southern shore is not certainly known, though the natives say about as far as from the northern. "Sunda, of which we are now to treat, is situated at about one-third of the total length of Java from the west end. The natives of Sunda consider themselves as separated from Java by a river, called _Chiamo_ or _Chenan_, little known to our navigators; so that the natives, in dissecting Java, speak of it as separated by this river _Chiamo_ from the island of Sunda on the west, and on the east by a strait from the island of Báli; as having Madura on the north, and on the south an undiscovered sea; and they think that whoever shall proceed beyond those straits, will be hurried away by strong currents, so as never to be able to return, and for this reason they never attempt to navigate it, in the same manner as the Moors on the eastern coast of Africa do not venture to pass the Cape of Currents." The following is the substance of a note inserted in Jono de Barros, Decadas, p. 76-77, vol. 4, part 1st, 8vo. Lisbon 1777. "The island of Java is divided into many kingdoms along the northern coast; and beginning to the eastward, those of which we have any account are--_Paneruca_, _Ovalle_, _Agasai_, _Paniao_ (whose king resides in the interior, and has a supremacy over those just mentioned), _Beredam_, _Sodaio_, _Tubam_, _Cajoam_, _Japara_ (the capital of this kingdom is called _Cheronhama_, three leagues from the sea coast, near to which _Japara_ is situated), _Damo_, _Margam_, and _Matarem_.