SOME OLD MALAY MSs. 135 
Batavia; for such is our custom, that when a Raja dies it is as 
if the judgment day had come, for there is confusion in the 
country. That was how it was that in the opinion of your 
friend the Captain Laut it was best that I with the Raja of 
Ternati should still remain in Macassar. Pardon, a thousand 
pardons of my friend the Heer Gouverneur General. I have 
nothing as a present to Heer General but two lads, as a mere 
token of sincerity and friendship, just like a couple of mustard 
seeds ; do not despise the present. For your friend the Captain 
Laut is an ignorant man, and has made a poor hand of compos- 
ing the words of this letter, so if there is any mistake I ask 
pardon of the Heer Gouverneur General. Finis. 
Written at Fort Parin:inga, near the city of Rotterdam, on 
the twenty-eighth (twenty-ninth) day of the month jamadi ’I- 
awwal, of the year jim, in the era of the prophet (may God 
bless him and give him peace) one thousand and eighty exactly. 
(In Dutch) The. Captain Laut of Buton. 
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E.—Letter from the King of Jambi to the 
Governor General at Batavia. 
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ols 25, > cme y S15 poe| one oak 2 paw a: aya 
ie use” shite» Sr 3h ae 
1. This seal ha¢ an ornamental border around it, which it was not thought 
necessary to reproduce. 
2, The letters nya and cha always have the three dots upside down in this 
letter, 
