"[3]: 2 The imprisonment of a Mongol emissary by the Khmer ruler Jayavarman VIII in 1281[3]: xviii–xix : 2 would have been ample justification for Polo's allegation of the inhumanity of its people.
[7] On Gerard Mercator's 1538 map of the world, Locat is situated in Indochina, south of Champa (Ciamba).
[8] On Guillaume Le Testu’s 1556 Cosmographie Universel, Locach appears to be named La Joncade – an island off a promontory of the southern continent, Terre australle, to the eastward of Grande Jaue, a northward-extending promontory of the Terre australle (Terra Australis) to the south of Java.
[citation needed] In 1769, the East India Company hydrographer, Alexander Dalrymple, stated that the northern part of New Holland "seems to be what Marco-Polo calls Lochae".
[10] Paul Wheatley, after G. Pauthier (who reads Locach as Soucat),[11][12] and Henry Yule (1866),[13] believe that the place referred to was in Borneo, such as: West Kalimantan, Sukadana or Lawai (arch.