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A TRANSLATION OF THE KEDDA ANNALS- 
drinking of fiery spirits, and spirits distilled or prepared 
from rice, in order to cure a disease to which he was subject. 
He had therefore a goodly number of jars of these liquors 
arranged in his palace. It was his custom after rising from 
his bed in the morning, and before he had washed his face, 
or eaten the betel mixture, to call for a glass full of spirits. 
This custom he had followed for years—but beyond this he 
never privately indulged himself in drinking, but only drank 
when at meals with his ministers and state officers , nor was 
he ever intoxicated. [17] 
NOTES. 
[17] The rites employed by the queen were of a Pagan or Hin¬ 
doo origin, and there are lingerings still of such amongst the mass 
of the Malays. 
Tanjong Putri is a rocky point at the entrance of what was for¬ 
merly the Kedda (or Muda) river but is now called the river 
Marbau. It is so called from the fancied resemblance one of the 
most prominent rocks has to a female—putri meaning a princess. 
Bukit Mariam is still known by thfe same name, as is the hill 
Pinjara. The jungle is in this quarter so thick that I have only 
been able to trace a few indications of the sites here as described 
by our author, but these are enough to convince me of his good faith. 
The old Raja had perhaps not been more than ten or twelve 
years at Bnkit Mariam before Ins son was married, and as he was 
getting old he may have reached about seventy. 
The annalist tries to palliate the frequent application of the next 
successor Phraong Mahawangsa to the spirit jars , by telling us 
that it was to cure some complaint he was subject to. But in those 
times all the people to the eastward used ardent spirits, and 
they were probably indebted to the colonists from India for the 
beverage ; where the tenets of Islam are rigidly enforced spirits 
are not openly and perhaps infrequently drank. But in those 
places where a greater laxity prevails, as I believe to be the case 
in Java, the arak apt or fire spirit is used without much reserve, Ja¬ 
vanese sailors employed in English vessels prefer gin and brandy 
and take it neat, grog not being patronized by them. 
The Indo chinese people who had received the Bali language 
amongst them were furnished with the names of five different kinds 
of ardent spirits. The inhabitants of the Malayan countries got 
these from the Klings. I extract these five from the Bali or tali 
work in my possession called Milinda Baja ; that is, it is in the 
Pali character of Laos and Siam. 
1 Peetha Sura 
2 Powa Suraka 
3 Othana Sura 
4 Paninna Sura 
5 Sampha rasang yutto. 
