A TRANSLATION OF THE KLEDDAH ANNALS. 171 
the Raj&—“Oh chief! you, your wife and family are to ac¬ 
company my eldest son—so assemble all your people, and 
then set forth in search of an eligible country lor my son to 
rule over and where he may erect a fort with a ditch.” Pra 
Chi Sam and his wife and family and Nang Sutaman, pro- 
fessed their readiness to go, observing that this country of 
Kedda is confined and not sufficient to contain the increasing 
numbers of your highnesses people the Girgasies. But, said 
Chi Sam, will your highness be pleased to inform me if my 
son Parak will be retained here at Court. The Raja told 
him to take Parak along with the party. This Pra Chi Sam 
was the son of a Malay and had been married to Nang 
Suttaman a Girgassi, and they had a son, the Parak just 
mentioned. The lad was handsome. It happened that a Gir¬ 
gassi panghulu or chief, named Nang Meri, who was the 
daughter of a Girgassi Rija, had then arrived. She was a 
chief tainess of the first rank and consequence amongst her 
tribes, Nang Meri was advanced somewhat in life, for she 
had both children and grand children, and the females had all 
been taken to the Raja’s palace, as they were very beautiful , 
being all Girgassi. Now Nang Meri was madly in love 
with this Parak, son of the couple Nang Suttaman and Phra 
Chi Sam. 
All having been got armed and ready, the colony departed 
to the N. N. W. There were numbers of horses and ele¬ 
phants along with it, and the march was enlivened by field 
sports and fishing, and diversified by the various objects of 
interest which the party encountered, but no eligible spot yet 
presented itself for a settlement. At length the party arrived, 
after two hundred days and nights travelling, at a de¬ 
sirable spot, where was a rivulet which flowed into the 
sea. The land was level and populous. Here the young 
chief erected a fort and palace and dug a ditch round all, and 
became the Raja of the country, and then he sent and collect¬ 
ed the scattered population of the districts into a narrower 
compass. He then called this large country Siam LancJiang 
[It requires 12 days for troops to reach Ligor from 
Kedda and 14 days for men mounted on elephants.] Then 
the Raja of Keddh learned that his son had been settled in 
the government of that country called Siam , and that lie had 
ordered that those districts which would not submit to Siam 
should be attacked and destroyed by the chief of the Gir- 
gassies Phra Chi Sam and his men. The obedient districts 
sent their officers with gifts, and offerings in token of their 
allegiance to the country of Siam. [7] 
