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 308 HISTORY OF THE PROPAGATION of Champa, whose sister was in the haram of the king of Mojopahit ; but, above all, Raden Fatah, son of Ari/a Damar, chief of the Javanese colony of Falembangy in Sumatra, already mentioned. This colony, surrounded by Malay tribes, and mixing with them as the less numerous party, though the most powerful, seems to have adopted the religion of Mahomet, and to have become, from this circumstance, and its natural connection with Java, a principal means of propagating Ma- homedanism in the latter country. The story, although involved in much improba- bility and contradiction, must be given as narrated by the Javanese writers themselves ; after which I shall add the necessary comments and strictures. During the period of the Mojopahit empire, a con- siderable intercourse existed between Java and the continental part of India, and the favourite wife of Browijoyo was a native of the Little Buddhist and Siamese kingdom of Champa, on the eastern coast of the Gulf of Siam, * the daughter, in short, of east side. They were laden with rice and lacquer, which is used in japanning of cabinets. One of these came from Champa, bound to the town of Malacca, which belongs to the Dutch, who took it from the Portuguese ; and this shows they have a trade with Champa. This was a very pretty, neat vessel, her bottom very clean, and curiously coated ; she had about forty
 * *' Here we found two small vessels at an anchor on the