A TRANSLATION OP THE KEDDAH ANNALS.' 7 ” 
But here at Mrit it was again assailed by a furious storm, 
which darkened the heavens and shook the timbers of the 
ships, brigs, and gallies. Marong Mahawangsa resorted 
to the former expedient, and having got upon the top of 
the stern, drew his bow called Prdsd Sdmpdm.Gdmbdra and 
shot his flaming arrow, saying,—speed arrow and slay Girda. 
But Girda avoided it, by making it glance off his plumage. 
Enraged, he pounced upon three more of the ships and ves¬ 
sels, and carried them off as he had done with the rest, in 
spite of the firing and shouting of the crews, for these vessels 
were also destroyed. Raja Maliawangsa, in a furious passion, 
shot another arrow towards the heavens, whereupon the 
arrow was changed into a bird named Jintdyu , which gave 
chase to Girda. But Girda vomited fire on Jintayu, and 
consumed him. Girda now kept aloof in the mountains, 
dreading the supernatural endowments of Marong Maha¬ 
wangsa. Next morning the remnant of the fleet sailed 
away from Mrit, and after some days came in sight of 
Sdldny , in the sea called Tappan. Here having cast anchor 
abreast of the Island, the Ambassador sent a party on shore 
to ask permission of the Chief or Raja to wood and water, 
but the Prince’s vessel with other ships stood on down the 
Coast, by rounding the point of the Island. ( g) 
About a day and night after the Prince left Salang and 
cured myself at Mergui when it was taken by the British forces. This Digest 
purports to have been compiled by order of Phrd Si (Si i) Mdt a Prince of 
the Royal line of Siam in the year 1591 of the Sakarat era or A. D. 1048 — 
and to have been given in 1596 of the seme Era A. D. 1053, to Chow Phiiiy4 
Intha 1 Wongsa, who weDt as general of the Siamese troops when they invaded 
Tenasserim. M. D’Anville thought that the Bersolie of Plotemy might imply 
Mergui. 2 Europeans frequented Mergui about the close of the 17th Century 
and the English had a Port here in 1687 A. D,, but the settlers were nearly all 
murdered. In 1793 the Siamese yielded and ceded ot Ava the whole Coast of 
Tenasserim south to Pak Chan, which last is now the boundary to the south 
betwixt the British and Siamese territories. 
(*) Indra. 
( 2 J D’Anville’s 
Iff) The Author is very clear in this part of his description of the voyage. 
Salang, then peopled it seems, is the Siamese name for Junkceylon —and this 
is yet employed by the surrounding maritime nations. It is probably a cor- 
tion of Seilan or SeJandip or Serindeb or Selandine, all names, according to 
Bryant, of Ceylon. It was then, bs it now is, a Siamese possession, and was 
conveniently situated for the Buddhist Priests of Ceylon, who were accustomed 
to pass over the Peninsula to Siam. I cculd not however find, when I was 
there in 1824, any ancient temples of Buddba. In the adjourning Siamese 
Province of P’hungk the Buddhist Priests are in numbers, very dieproDOr- 
tionate to the population. ” 
If Girdd had attacked the Prince at this bluff southern point of 54’fmg, he 
might have been pretty sure of bis quarry. When making the same course 
from Mergui in a small brig in 1825 we were very nearly lost on the sama 
point. We were on our last tack, and only cleared the towering rocks by a 
