142 SOME OLD MALAY MSS. 
surat berka[seh-kasehan] demgan Pargéran Adipati di negri 
Jambi itu, supaya janzan lagi berantara negri Birni dan neegri 
Jambi itu sa-lama-lama-nya. Maka ada-lah yarg negri Birni 
‘dan} Jambi itu upama sa-buah negri jua ada-nya. Ada pun 
yarn di-kehendaki pacuka Sri Sultan, jikalau ada kaseh tulvs 
ekhlas Paréran Adipati itu, paduka [Sri] Sultan mehendaki 
membli sendawa, itu-lah yang di-kehendaki paduka Sri Sultan 
ka-pada Parméran Adipati. Sa-bermula pula jikalau ada kaseh 
tolong Sinnyor Kapitan] akan béta minta tolom membli kain 
gabar itu-lah jikalau ada kaseh tolony Sinnyor Kapitan. Shaha- 
dan yar utusan deri Birni itu, petaroh beta-lah pada pertaima- 
nya ka-pada Ailah Tuhan ‘alam sakalian-nya, dan berkat nabi- 
nya ‘alaihum ’s-sallama, kemdian dengan tolorg plihara Sinnyor- 
lah akan segala merika’itu jikalau ada khilaf bebal-nya ; 
demikian-lah yang beta kehendaki kaseh tulus ekhlas Sinnyor 
akan béta. Ada pun kaseh béta akan Sinnyor Kapitan hanya 
deman sa’orarg dan tikar besembory, maka jangan apa kira-nya 
Sinnyor ‘aibkan ceri-pada tanda ekhlas hati béta jua ada-nya 
akan Sinnyor Kapitan. 
A letter of unending friendship and unmarred pleasure, like 
eternal sunshine, from me the Raja Bendahara Paduka Sri Maha- 
raja, prince in Birni (7) to the English Captain at Jambi, who is 
very much more intelligent than all his enemies and adversaries, 
and it is he who is very faithful to all his [friends and] 
companions, and it is he whose report is widely published in all _ 
lands, and who is very charitable to all beggars and poor people, 
and it is he who satisfies the needs and desires of all the un- 
fortunates who are dependent upon him. Such a report of him 
has been spread throughout all lands, so that loving desire has 
arisen [ because of | such a report. Amma b‘adu, 
after that, | am sending (7) this to express the friendship of my 
heart to the English Captain. Now His Highness the Sultan 
[of Birni] is sending Sri Léla Diraja and Sri Setia Pahlawan and 
Sri Raja Khatib and all those who are with them to take this letter 
of [affection | to my lord the Governor at Jambi, so that Birniand 
Jambi should not be sundered for ever, for Birni [and] Jambiare 
as if they were one country. Now that which is desired by His 
Highness the Sultan, if there is love sincerity and friendship with 
