160 COMMEKCE WITH peror called Lao-Gil-ijoyigt of the dynasty called Songi whom I presume to be Kao-tsou-vou-ti, the first prince of the dynasty Song, whose reign, ac- cording to Du Halde, commenced in the year of Christ 420, and who was a prince possessed of great qualities. At two other and distant periods, the kings of Chapo^ or Koua-oua^ or Jao-wdy are described as sending missions of homage, as all mis- sions from foreign princes are construed by the ignorance and vanity of the Chinese to be, to China. In the reign of the first Tartar sovereign of China, the celebrated Kuhlai, and in the thir- teenth year of his reign, an attempt is stated to have been made against Jao-U'a^ which failed, ow- ing to the great numbers of the people of the country. The thirteenth year of the reign of Kublai corresponds with the year 1292. The Chinese accounts, as we come down, become more circumstantial, and seem to be more identified with the particular histoiy of the island of Java. In the fifth year of the reign of Ching Tsiij better known by the name of Yong-Lo, of the dynasty of Meng, the king of the western portion of the island is described as having conquered the king of the east- ern portion. The former is called, in the Chinese work, To-iva-pan, This fact, if it really refer to Java, as has been supposed, seems to coincide with an important fact in the history of that island, the foundation of Mojopahiiy by a refugee from the
