Chapter PARIAH-ARRACK to PASEI of P by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

city Pasi (or Pacem), which in old times, next to Magapahit and Malakka, was one of the three greatest cities of the East … but now is only a poor open village with not more than 4 or 500 families, dwelling in poor bamboo cottages.”—Valentijn, (v.) Sumatra, 10.

1727.—“And at Pissang, about 10 Leagues to the Westward of Diamond Point, there is a fine deep River, but not frequented, because of the treachery and bloody disposition of the Natives.”—A. Hamilton, ii. 125; [ed. 1744].