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With his wonderful cannon which had already sunk one fleet, 

 RAJA DONAN then fired a single shot, which sent ninety-nine 

 vessels of Raja Petukal's fleet to the bottom, leaving afloat 

 only the ship which carried the Raja. This Raja DONAN 

 boarded, uttering three terrible shouts, and then cut and 

 thrust right and left, cutting off a leg or chopping off a head 

 at every stroke, until not a single soul was left alive on board 

 the vessel except himself and Raja PETUKAL. A single com- 

 bat then took place between these two ; Raja Donan's sword 

 was shivered into three pieces in his hand in a blow aimed at 

 his adversary, but it was made whole again almost immediate- 

 ly. In vain did he stab Raja Petukal three times with his 

 kris. The weapon broke off short in his hands each time, and 

 after restoring it twice, he got angry and threw it overboard. 

 Seeing this, RAJA PETUKAL threw away his sword and grap- 

 pled with RAJA DONAN. They wrestled furiously, and at the 

 end of the first round RAJA DONAN was hurled violently into 

 space and fell into the sea in mid-ocean where he floated in- 

 sensible. When he recovered sufficiently, he prayed to Sang 

 Hyang Banna Sakti to replace him on board Raja PETU- 

 KAL'S ship and the prayer had hardly left his lips when he was 

 back again on the deck confronting his enemy. It was now 

 his turn, and the next struggle ended in RAJA PETUKAL being 

 hurled into the air and falling into the whirlpool of Pauh Jang- 

 gi, where he perished. 



A beautiful princess, Tuan Putri Che Muda, the sister of 

 Raja PETUKAL, was discovered in a cabin on board the ves- 

 sel, and was persuaded by Raja Doxan to accompany him on 

 board the Bunga Rampei. A wave of his magic turban 

 brought the latter alongside, and Che Ambong came on board 

 and greeted the new-found damsel affectionately. Raja 

 DONAN had now two sisters, and after they had eaten and 

 drunk together, Che Muda's things were transferred to the 

 small vessel and the large one was sunk by Raja DONAN. 



The seemingly endless cruise of Raja Donan's praliu now 

 began again. When they had been seven days and nights at 

 sea, he demanded of Che Ambong, who had travelled so much 

 about the world with her brother, to know where he might 

 find some great powerful kingdom with a Raja blessed with a 



