164 A TRANSLATION OF THE KEDDAH ANNALS. 
Supposing the ladder to stand at the usual angle, the height 
perpendicularly may have been about 10 or 12 f. 
Soon after this vase had been so shipped, the R£ja Kalangi 
addressed a letter in reply to Raja Mahawangsa expressing 
his desire to be on the most amicable terms with him; pray 
acquaint your Raja with my hope that he will instruct his 
people to keep up a constant intercourse with my kingdom, 
and that this may subsist to our posterity. The two parties 
of envoys then took their leave and embarking in the vessel 
which had brought the envoys from Rum—and sending the 
prahus close along the shore, they all set sail and reached 
Lankasuka. The vessels here anchored in deep water . 
The ambassadors having all gone to pay their respects to 
Mahawangsa, they found him seated amidst his chiefs, his 
royal son being also present, in order to learn what ship it 
was which had just anchored. On the envoys whom he had 
sent to Ava entering the presence along with those from 
Rum, the Raja quickly welcomed the latter, and inquired 
how it happened that they had arrived along with his minis¬ 
ters. 4 hey laughing informed his majesty how they had 
so unexpectedly met their brothers the other envoys at the 
mouth of the river of the country of Kalangi , where they 
had presented themselves at the Court of Raji Kalangi, the 
Raj& of the country of Ava ^—Your slaves have been des¬ 
patched by the Sultan of Rum to convey your highness home; 
since his majesty has been duly apprized by the Emperor of 
China, that the Prince of Rum has married his, the Emperor’s, 
daughter. Here is the letter given to us for your highness 
by the Sultan of Rum to the same effect. Mahawangsa read 
himself the letter, and laughingly replied, I am overjoyed, 
and will gladly return to the Sultan, but I request my brothers 
to wait until I shall have made over and abdicated with every 
proper formality, my government to my son, for I have per- 
severingly reclaimed larqe tracks of land from the sea. 
Ever since I had a son born to me here, and since I first 
formed this settlement, the extent of dry land has been prodi¬ 
giously increasing. True your highness, the envoys rejoined, 
it is most proper that your beloved son should be made the 
Raja of this country, for, in the apprehension at least of 
your servants, unless the Raja to be set over it, be of the 
same race as your highness, he will not be able to hold the 
government. His highness assented to this opinion f 1 ] He 
then directed his ministers to go and look at the vessel which 
had long ago conveyed him there, and which had been prop- 
C 1 ) Why and wherefore, we are not informed. 
