172 A TRANSLATION OP THE KEDOAH ANNALS. 
NOTES. 
[7] I shall have occasion in the sequel here to examine narrowly 
tins claim set up by our Kedda annalist that the Kedda country 
gave a king to Siam. It is undoubtedly within the scoi e of pos¬ 
sibility, and, if Loubere was correct, of probability, for that author 
remat ks, that all the kings of Siam were not of the same race. 
But I have discovered no recorded fads to countenanre the sup- 
position, that Mah&wangsa was a progenitor of any king of Siam. 
1 think however, that there will be sufficient evidence to shew that 
an intercourse had begun at an early period betwixt Kedda and 
Siam, and that the former was one of the inlets to the lower 
p rovinces, at least, of Siam, of the religions of India. 
It would seem, as I have before hinted, from the reply given by 
the mantris to their K&ja, that they knew only of two celebrated 
kingdoms within a reasonable distance, namely, Achin and Pegu, 
yet at this period Java, Menangkabau in Sumatra, and the an- 
rient Singapura, or Johor, the Sabor, it is believed, of Ptolemy, were 
flourishing. The putting of such a question belied the assumption 
lhat Kedd& then carried on an extensive trade with foreign coun¬ 
tries. 
The bow here called dhachang was only used by Rama and 
Buddha. 
Rokam is a Malayan name for a wild fruit tree, the 
carissa shinarum or flacourtia calaphrasta of Marsden, and the 
girth of the one described was that of a guling aring or deer net, 
which would give a diameter of about three feet. This net or trap 
is shaped and constructed like a purse. The hoops are connected 
by meshes of rattans, and when not in use, it folds or closes up 
just as a purse does. Its length is about 6 or 7 feet. The same 
trap is employed to catch wild hog, nearly the same to carry hogs 
to market. The underwood of the forest is cut along a given line, 
and then formed into a bushy fence with apertures at intervals, 
in which the rets are fastened with the open end of course inward. 
Sometimes, especially when hog is the game, these nets are set 
something in the manner of a moletrap, by bending down a thick 
branch of a tree to act as a spring. A party of men takes a wide 
circuit, and drives the animals towards the fence, when the latter 
rush into the guling aring. I have seen a large pig swung up 
into the air by this contrivance. 
Gunong Giryang, is the “ elephant rock” of modern maps. It 
rises abruptly out of a low marshy plain, and is about 3 or 4 miles 
inland. It is a towering mass of apparently primary limestone, 
and the shells embedded in a ferruginous breccia found in its 
numerous caves, proclaim it to have been an island as described 
by our author. Within my own experience, or the last twenty 
years, the sea has in some places on the coast of Province Wellesley, 
