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Hui-Lin: I Ch'ieh Ching Yin I (737-820) (Lexicon)
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Taken from : Paul Pelliot 1923-25
Here is found an account of the Kun-Lun people. They are also called Kurung.
The kunlun language: the upper is pronounced kun the lower lun, this commonly used language is ordinarily also called Gulun.
They are the barbarous men of the islands, great and small, of the southern seas. They are very black, and expose their naked figures. They can tame and cow ferocious beasts, rhinoceroses, elephants and the like. There are many races and varieties of them thus there are the Zangis, the Turmi, the Kurdang and the Khmer. All are simple humble people. Their nations have nothing of good from or social responsibility. They rob and steal for a living and are fond of chewing up and devouring humans, as if they were some sort of rakshas or evil ghosts. The language they speak are not correct and proper ones being different from those of the several "bulwark" nations. They excel when they go in the water, and they can remain there the whole day and not die.
Note: Khmer is Chinese Kap-miet. Turmi is Tuet-mjie. Kurdang is Kuot-d'ang
Note : The Zangis mentioned here might well be the black people in the Indonesian archipelago. (Papua?) There is only one chinese symbol used to write Zangis it is the one commenly pronounced as "seng" (and mostly translated as monk)