SRI RAMA. Il5 



but though the monkeys arrived in thousands, they only jump- 

 ed upon him and gambolled about, embarrassing him more 

 than ever. Then Mambing Bongsu appeared, and the birds 

 and monkeys retired. He explained everything, showed the 

 ring which he had received from the Jin on the mountain, 

 and announced that the Princess was already his wife. All 

 thus ended peacefully, the Jin spent a few days at the capital, 

 and then flew away to his own country after exchanging 

 mutual promises of alliance with Mambang Bongsu. 



Mambang Bongsu and his Princess lived happily ever after 

 and never failed to exchange annual embassies with Sri Rama 

 and his consort at Tanjong Bunga. 



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This is one only of many cherdras extant orally among the 

 Malays. Two others, entitled Raja Ambong and Raja Donan, 

 also related by Mir Hassan have been reduced to writing for 

 me, and I was fortunate enough some months ago, at Balik 

 Pulau in Penang, to secure a third, Raja Budiman or Naga 

 Mas, related by one Dollah of that place, who had learned it 

 from an old blind man of Situl (north of Kedah). Another 

 which I heard sung by a woman of Brunei is now being taken 

 down for me at Sarawak (Borneo), and I have the names of 

 others which will, I trust, be collected by those interested 

 in Malay folk-lore before the present generation of story- 

 tellers dies out. 



W. E. MAXWELL. 



