A TRANSLATION OF THE KEDDAII ANNALS. 3 
I have found some obscurity in several of its passages, 
which, even with the aid of intelligent natives, has with 
difficulty been removed. Many of the words in it I believe 
are not in Marsden’s Dictionary, and are not now in com¬ 
mon use. 
The author has net chosen to give his name, and he has 
committed two grievous errors for a historian, as he has 
neither informed us of the date whence he sets out, or fo 
that when he himself wrote. But a date in the middle of 
the work and a copy of the native history of Achin, have 
enabled me to supply his omissions. 
I shall have occasion to shew that the Colony described 
in this history came from India. Hence it is probable that 
its Annals were written in some Hindu dialect, until Islam- 
ism prevailed in Keddah, when the previous order of things 
was subverted, and the Arabic character was introduced. 
THE MARONG MAHAWANGSA. 
I. 
THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK OF MARONG MAHAWANGSA. 
The work begins with praises of the Prophet Sullman or 
Solomon (i to whom the dominion of the whole world and 
every living thing in it was entrusted by God.” 
There was a Raja of Rum who despatched an Ambassador 
named Raja Mdrong [Malta] Wangsa to China, in order to 
negociate a marriage betwixt the Prince his son and a 
daughter cf His Chinese Majesty. This Ambassador traced 
his lineage from the inferior gods. His father was descend¬ 
ed from the genii, and his mother from the Devadeva or 
demigods. He was a great Raja amongst the many Rajas 
who had been assembled by the King on this occasion, and 
he moreover wore a diadem. ( 1 ) 
Raja Marong Mahawangsa had married, contrary to the 
wi sh of his parents, a girl whose father was a Girgassi Raja 
and whose mother was descended from the Rdksdsd, Where- 
ever he went he took her with him, as he feared the grandees 
of the [? Persian] Court, who dreaded his preternatural 
powers (a). 
(a) Here we catch him tripping, since, not much further on, lie stigmatizes 
the people found in Kedd£h by the Ambassador on his arrival as Girgassi, 
which term corresponds nearly with the Rdhshdsd of the Hindus, or the evil 
geoie. of their mythology. 
