Luo-yue is mentioned for example by Jia Dan in the Xin Tang-shu, as lying on the northern shore of the Straits of Melaka and opposite Srivijaya in 1060; in the Shung Shi; and in a ninth- century Japanese source.3 One possible correlation between Luo-yue and Seluyut, Johor, was first proposed by the Dutch scholar J.L. Moens.' According to modern linguistic principles, the theory that Seluyut could have been transliterated Luo-yue can be believed only by means of drastic aphaeresis.2