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[The following paper is reprinted from a volume of the Malacca Observer, a newspaper published in Malacca in 1823. It appears to have been borrowed in the main from the "Asia Portugueza" of, a translation of which is to be found in Vol. VI of 's Voyages. The notes have been supplied principally by Mr.. .]

ALACCA was built by the Celates, a people who chiefly subsisted by fishing, and who united themselves with the Malays, who inhabited the mountains. Their first Chief was Paramisôra. who had been a person of high rank in the island of Java, whence he was expelled by another Chief who usurped his lordship, on which occasion Paramisora fied to Cincapura (Singapura) where he was well received by the lord of that place and raised to high employment. But having rebelled against his benefactor, he was driven from thence by the King of Siam, and forced to wander about Malacca, as