134 SOME OLD MALAY MSS. 
Rotterdam dulapan (sembilan) likor hari deri bulan jamadi 
‘]-awwal, pada tahun Jim, hijratu ’n-nabi salla Allah ‘alaihi wa 
’s-sallama, sa-ribu dulapan puloh genap. 
De Cap*-Laut van Buton. 
This letter is to indicate sincerity and friendship from 
your affectionate friend Kichili Jingalawu, the Captain Laut of 
Buton, sending many greetings to my affectionate friend Heer 
Gouverneur General Johan Maetsuijker, who maintains the 
authority or the Company in the city of Batavia, directing all the 
work of the Company and all his friends the rajas below the 
wind; to whom it has been granted by God (to Him be praise 
and be He exalted) to have increasing prosperity in this world, 
and whose heart is enlightened, and from him proceeds all good 
understanding and wise counsel, and who helps those who are 
in trouble and who knows mens’ hearts, and he is renowned 
among the people above the wind and those below the wind, 
who praise his intelligence, moreover he is wise and prudent, 
and it is he who establishes the faithfulness of his promises with 
all the rajas and will never more change them; thus may God 
extend to him life and safety and blessing, in order that we 
may be friends, Ternati and Buton with the Company, that 
we may never be separated for ever. After that, your friend the 
Captain Laut informs the Gouverneur General that when I was’ 
sent by my friend the Raja of Buton I accomranied His High- 
ness the Sultan of Ternati, and we went together with Admiral 
Cornelis Speelman to Macassar, in order that I might do our 
business; but the Captain Laut informs you that when the 
power of the Company together with the power of God should | 
have completed our business, it was the intention of the Captain 
Laut to show his face to the Heer Gouverneur General, to satis- 
fy his heart. But just now the admiral has returned to Jakatra, 
and only my lord the Raja of Ternati remains at Macassar ; so 
your friend the Captain Laut remains with my lord the Raja of 
Ternati. Another matter: the Raja of Buton has gone back to 
the mercy of God, returning whence he came, leaving the world to 
appear in the presence of the land of the hereafter. Itison this 
account that your friend the Captain Laut did not manage to go 
to Jakatra to show his face to the Heer Gouverneur General at 
