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They were both very kindly received by the king who 
appeared to pay great attention to the cause, hearing both 
parties in silence ; he afterwards put several questions to 
them, and having received their answers he became exceed¬ 
ingly angry; assuredly excited by horror at the mischief; 
and began to cry orit with all the strength of his lungs. 
The high priest in imitation of him began also to cry out no 
less high and strongly, so much so that for some time this 
made such noise and confusion, that I could not understand 
any thing of what was said by them ; while the poor guilty 
man shewed by his humble countenance, that he received 
the reprimand with a deep humility. 
The whole was ended by condemning the guilty party to 
pay a fine. As there were no more cases submitted to the 
Court for that day, our friendly conversation began again, 
during which the high priest put to us several curious 
questions ; as for instance, speaking of the English East 
India Company, he asked, (( where is Mr Company living?” 
As the information we obtained in the house of the chief, 
as well as in several houses of Rumbau, shewed that the 
Jakuns there were in very small numbers, and were living 
far from the place where we were, we proposed to pursue 
our inquiries further, and to go to Sungey Ujong, another of 
the Menangkabau states, at a distance of two days walk 
from Rumbau. 
With much pleasure I will mention here, that on the 
several occasions I stopped at Rumbau, I found the inha¬ 
bitants very polite, hospitable and entirely inoffensive; they 
are assuredly the most civilized of all the Malays living out¬ 
side of the Company’s territory; at least according to my 
knowledge. 
On the fourteenth we left Rumbau. After having walked 
for some time in paddy fields we entered the jungle where 
we journeyed all the rest of the day; in the evening we 
stopped at a small hut inhabited by a single man, where 
we passed the night. 
On the fifteenth we reached Sungey Ujong. I have 
mentioned in another place the particulars of what occurred 
to us in that state, where we found a good number of Ja¬ 
kuns ; I will abstain from repeating here what I have 
already stated. 
From Sungey Ujong we went to Jellabu ; this is the 
most considerable of the Menangkabau states with respect 
to the extent of the land, but one of the least important as 
regards the population, which amounts only to the number 
