Crossword-Solution: PEDIR 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The admiral, on which the king of Pedir was on board, was in the first squadron, and with him were three Turkish gallions.

The root of the Berar (_Caladium costatum_) is eaten by the natives of the Pedir coast (Achin), after being well washed.

Ludovico Barthema (Vartoma) of Bologna, began his travels in 1503, and in 1505, after visiting Malacca, which he describes as being the resort of a greater quantity of shipping than any other port in the world, passed over to Pedir in Sumatra, which he concludes to be Taprobane.

The fountain of Naphtha or liquid balsam found at Pedir, so much celebrated by the Portuguese writers, is doubtless this oleum terrae, or meniak tanah, as it is called by the Malays.) SOFT ROCK.

When the island was first visited by European navigators this state must have been in its decline, as appears from the political importance at that period of the kings of Achin, Pedir, and Pase, who, whilst they acknowledged their authority to be derived from him as their lord paramount, and some of them paid him a trifling complimentary tribute, acted as independent sovereigns.