The Explanation Now Given Seems More Satisfactory Than The Suggestions
Formerly Made Of The Connection Of The Name Locac, Either With Lophaburi
(Or Lavo, Louvo), A Very Ancient Capital Near Ayuthia, Or With Lawek,
I.E. Kamboja.
Kamboja had at an earlier date possessed the lower valley
of the Menam, but, we see, did so no longer.[4]
The name Lawek or Lovek is applied by writers of the 16th and 17th
centuries to the capital of what is still Kamboja, the ruins of which
exist near Udong. Laweik is mentioned along with the other Siamese or
Laotian countries of Yuthia, Tennasserim, Sukkothai, Pichalok, Lagong,
Lanchang (or Luang Prabang), Zimme (or Kiang-mai), and Kiang-Tung, in the
vast list of states claimed by the Burmese Chronicle as tributary to Pagan
before its fall. We find in the Ain-i-Akbari a kind of aloes-wood called
Lawaki, no doubt because it came from this region.
The G.T. indeed makes the course from Sondur to Locac sceloc or S.E.;
but Pauthier's text seems purposely to correct this, calling it, "v. c.
milles oultre Sandur." This would bring us to the Peninsula somewhere
about what is now the Siamese province of Ligor,[5] and this is the only
position accurately consistent with the next indication of the route, viz.
a run of 500 miles south to the Straits of Singapore. Let us keep in
mind also Ramusio's specific statement that Locac was on terra firma.
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