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³ There has been much speculation about the early history of Singapore. Scholars have sought to identify it with Mo-ho-sin of I-tsing, Salahat of Ibn Khordadzbeh, Malayur of Marco Polo, and Ma-li-yu-eul of the History of the Yuan Dynasty ; but these are all very problematical. The account given in Malay Annals is a curious jumble of myths and traditions. The identity of Tumasik and Singapore is universally accepted, and as such we find a reference to it in Tao-i Chih lio of Wang Ta-yüan. Reference has already been made above to the conquest of Tumasik by the Javanese about the middle of the fourteenth century A.D. Reference may be made in this connection to the famous 'inscription at the mouth of the Singapore river' which was destroyed by the Public Works Department about a century ago. For a brief account of the old history of Singapore, cf. Winstedt—A History of Malaya (1935), pp. 31-36.