A TRANSLATION OF THE KEDDAH ANNALS. 177 
its mistress, because it will be able to give me always speedy 
accounts of her the princess my daughter.” Accordingly 
all was quickly got ready, and the princess having been 
seated on ' her elephant Kamala Jauhari, the Rajd put into 
her hand a charmed kris called Lela Masani which was 
originally willed as an heir loom. He likewise said to the 
elephant. “If thy mistress shall become a Raja, do not thou 
discontinue going backwards and forwards betwixt her set¬ 
tlement and Kedda, to keep me informed of all that happens 
to her.” Then Jauhari made oheisance, and set off due J East 
followed by all the ministers and other state officers, who 
were appointed to escort her. They soon entered upon a 
wild, woody tract, covered with primeval forest, of great 
extent and unfrequented;—then having quitted that broad 
level country the elephant led the expedition over hills and 
mountains. When the colony had approached near to the sea 
there , and had arrived at a large river which emptied itself 
into the sea, the elephant Jauhari halted, for the place was level. 
Here was erected a palace and a fort defended by a ditch, and 
the chiefs and people having effected this, the Queen examined 
the buildings, and then seating himself on her throne received 
the homage of her subjects. Now all those who thus presented 
themselves before her highness, were quite astonished at her 
state, and the power conferred upon her by the possession 
of the enchanted kris and the elephant Lela Jauhari. 
Thus from month to month and from year to year, the po¬ 
pulation of the place increased. The four ministers finding 
all in such a fair train craved leave to return to Kedda and 
asked also her highness to favour them with the name of the 
new settlement. The female Raja approved of their desire 
to return, and told them that they should acquaint her royal 
fattier that the country had been named Patani s because or 
on account of the kris lela mussani (a) 
Thus the Raja of Kedda Marong Maha Podisat happily 
accomplished his desire to settle his children in separate Go¬ 
vernments, yet grief assailed his mind, when he reflected on the 
solitary condition of his remaining son for he had no other 
child, than this youngest before mentioned, and moreover he 
was getting aged, and because (owing to so many drains 
upon it) the population of Kedda had become scanty. In 
order therefore to dispel his melancholy he spent most of his 
time in hunting animals of the forest and netting birds, and 
allowed his son to carry on the Government with the aid ot 
the ministers and principal state officers* [9] 
(a) The sequiter here is quite obscure. 
