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apartment of the lady he is in act of vowing, as lovers are wont to vow, 

 when the Yak's son unluckily enters and seizing him, binds him with a 

 coil of snakes, and then with one end of this he suspends him from the 

 ceiling. Oounar^t's Uncle Beromma Chakkri learning the deplorable 

 fate of his Nephew mounts on the back of i^TWi (the Hindoo eagle Garuda) 

 and speedily arrives on his flying charger at the Yak's palace. Bursting 

 into the apartment the snakes are alarmed at sight of their inveterate foe 

 Khrut, and quit OouNARtjr, who seizing a spear engages the Yak in single 

 combat. He afterwards carries off the lady to his own country. 



8. Malay is a book quoted by Dr. Leyden and relates, he observes, 

 to the benefits of Malay, the being whose office it is to allay the torments 

 of Naraka or hell. I have not perused it. 



9. Maree. — An account of a daughter of a Ratchsha. 



10. Chattn. — A Drama in the rang Lakhan or Ligonean strain. 



11. C/ia/awaw— Is a History of Chalawan, prince of alligators, who 

 under illusive forms allured to the banks of the river the two daughters of a 

 Siamese, and then conveyed them unhurt to the deep. These were Nang 

 Tap,hau kua, " the princess of the diamond ship," and Nang tap,hau 

 Thang "the princess of the golden ship." King Chau Khrai Thang 

 fascinated the alligator, which coming on shore was slain by him after 

 two fierce engagements. 



12. Phom Hddm. — The story of " Phom-Haam," or " she with the 

 fragrant locks,'' the daughter of an elephant. She cuts off one of her 

 ringlets and gives it to the winds. It is wafted across the ocean to the 

 country of a certain king who finds it while bathing — being directed to 

 where it lay by the perfume it spreads around. He consults soothsayers 

 regarding the original wearer of this precious ringlet, and is directed by 

 them to the residence of Phom-Haam. With her he elopes, followed by 

 the elephant,* which subsequently dies of grief, bequeathing his tusks 

 to Phom-Haam. 



* Some mortal in a stage of the Metempsychosis. 



