138 SOME OLD MALAY MSS. 
lagi kala-nya putus dan bercherai, maka jargan-lah kira-nya di- 
obahkan lagi muafakat dan berkaseh-kasehan itu sa-lama lagi 
ada chahaya bulan dan bintang serta peridaran maiam dan sian 
ka-pada sa-lama-lama-nya. Kemdian deri itu barary di-ketahui 
Johan Maetsuijker Gurnador General kira-nya, bahwa Pangéran 
Ratu menyurohkan Wargsa Yita berniaga ka-Batawi lalu ka- 
Jawa, derran membawa dagargan bararm kedar-nya ; maka per- _ 
taroh Paméran Ratu ka-pada Johan Maetsuijker Gurnador 
General; kalau-kalau ada khilaf bebal-nya Warsa Yita dan se- 
gala merika yar serta-nya, hendak-lah kira-nya dengan plihara 
dan kaseh Johan Maetsuijker Gurnador General dan Raden van 
Indié akan dia. Shahadan Pargéran Ratu miuta di-jnal meriam 
besi atau tembaga, yang brat sa-bahara atau dua pikul, baramyw 
brapa puchok ; brapa juga akan nilai-nya telah m‘alum-lah ka- 
pada Wamsa Yita. Dan di-sigrakan kira-nya kembali-nya ka- 
negri Jambi, supaya sigra Pargéran beroleh khabar yam keba- 
jikan itu. Suatu pun tiada tanda tulus dan ekhlas deri-pada 
Pargéran Ratu ka-pada Johan Maetsuijker Gurnador General 
hanya lada dua-puloh pikul. Tamat. | 
Brief van Pargeran Ratoe in Jambi, ontfangen den 30 April 
1669 met Wansa Ita. 
The word of Truth, 
though it be : 
The Ruler of the 
Faithful, the Pangeran of 
Jambi, the friend of God, 
Royal Highness. 
A letter of love with sincerity and friendship to which 
there is no end, from the Pangéran Ratu, sent to Johan Maet- 
suijker, Governor General, who holds the throne of majesty in 
the city of Batavia, who governs all the people of Holland both 
above the wind and below the wind, renowned through all the 
universe in dispensing justice and mercy, none of the rajas_he- 
low the wind are like him in his intelligence and prudence, he is 
wise and wealthy, and greatly protects all strangers, and has 
love and pity for all beggars and poor people, moreover he is 
praised in the presence of all the rajas, and is very much feared 
by all his enemies and adversaries through the greatness of the 
—"T9} 41g 
