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A TRANSLATION OP THE KEDDAH ANNALS. 
authority, as far as the chronicle allows us to judge, that his son 
became Raja. Since the latter was of a sufficiently mature a^e 
to be married when his father was about to depart from Kedda, 
we may admit that he was about twenty yeirs of age at that time. 
1 he question pat by lire Raja to his mantrSs regarding the coun¬ 
tries near him, rather contradicts the previous assertions of our author, 
for the countries of Cambodia, Java and other Eastern Islands were 
then flourishing, any of which then loo far exceeded Ked ii in 
importance. Malacca, if then settled must have teen in its in¬ 
fancy. But I appiehend that it had not been so then. Toe 
actual products of Pegu and Kedd& were probably little different 
from what they now are, although our author gives us no insight, 
beyond his account of the jars and wood, into tins subject, Pulo 
Percha wiil be again noticed further on. 
Kalangi is indiscriminately used by our author to designate the 
country, or its Raja. In one place we find <s Rajd Kalangi"— 
then the “country of Kalangi," and finally, “ Ety'd Kalanyi , the 
J\6jd of the country of Awak” or Ava, now called Angwa by the 
people of the neighbouring regions. The Changong of our author 
is Pegu which was doubtless celebrated in those times as well as 
these days for its teak wood, whether such was obtained fiom its 
higher tracts or from the upper country of Ava proper. As to tire 
mallau tei semut, this is the present sticklac of commerce, a red¬ 
dish die. Fiom the distant source assigned to the river it must 
have been the Irrawady, the river leading up to old Pegu being 
but narrow and limited in its course. 
M. D’Anviile in his Ancient Geography supposes that Pegu was 
probably the Besingitis, at the bottom of the Sinus Tabaiicus of 
Ptolemy. In that case the Martaban country on the San Lueti 
river seems to be the place indicated. Although I endeavoured 
during a residence of about a year in the lower provinces of Ava, 
to get access to ancient chronicles of Pegu, I was unsuccessful, 
nor do I know if any exist. In an abstract of an account of the 
Tenasserim Provinces which the R, A. Society did me the honor to 
publish (*) I mentioned that no buildings there are extant of an 
older date apparently than that of the introduction of Buddhism, 
an observation which I think will equally apply to the Burmese 
and Siamese countries, and the assumption by Burmese Phoungi 
or Buddhist priests of all the chief sacerdotal offices of these lower 
Provinces of Pegu sufficiently accounts for the want or scarcity of 
Ptguan records 
Bagoo and Pegu are the ancient names for the former capitat, 
if not of the country. Of all its former grandeur nothing when I 
visited it during the war with Ava in 1825 remained, but the 
dilapidated brick walls and ditch, and the lowering Shui Madu or 
Staupa, the receptacle for tire iclics of Buddha. I noticed on 
a marble slab standing upon the platform of this building the 
inscription left by Along Phra or Alompra* the Burmese Con- 
