The map of 16th century, Portugueses' Malacca. Just what on earth and why a place tagged "Malayo" appears on such map is still a mystery in absence based on modern references.
It looks like to be a locality name laid along the Penarikan trans-peninsula 'river' or it may be a river itself. The case of the labelling suggests it is a river either independent or the Pahang itself.
In maps of such time the Penarikan route was depicted as one river where River Pahang in the east coast and River Muar on the west flow and almost meet each other in their middle courses, but it also may possibly as real as drawn where we understood the dynamicity of Malayan ancient and classical hydrology.
The second part of this is that the tags written with 'Aru', three as can be seen in this map (bottom, middle) actually tell us the territory of the Kingdom of Aru which stretch as north as modern Medan and as south far as Rokan or Batubara, thus situated directly opposite of Selangor on the peninsular where Sejarah Melayu told the immediate raid of Aru had took place reaching until Cape Jugra before thwarted by Laksamana Tun Tuah's navy.
-TMII
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