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A TRANSLATION OF THE KEDDA \NNALS. 
history to follow these two travellers. Suffice it to say 
that Iblis led his pupil over various regions, displaying by 
numerous feats and contrivances his power over their in¬ 
habitants, [a] 
At length the travellers reached the kafir country called 
Kedda. Here they entered the palace of Pra. Ong Maha- 
wdngsd; and before he was wide awake stood beside his 
bed curtains. Presently the Raja awoke and called for his 
usual glass of spirits. The page went to fill it from one of 
the jars, when the wretch Iblis stepping up defiled the 
beverage, he being invisible. r Ihe Raja drank it off, when 
Sheikh Abdulla losing his temper said to Iblis, God bless 
me! [istaghafar ilia], why did you defile the Raj&'s 
draught ? Iblis replied—Did I not caution and direct you 
not to question or find fault with what I might do towards 
' any of your race ? True, said the other, and I should not 
have found fault with you elsewhere, but here you have 
had the hardihood to behave thus towards a great prince, 
who is about to be one of God’s vicegerents. The Raja 
was astonished to hear people squabbling so close to him, 
without his being able to see them. But just at this mo¬ 
ment Iblis got angry with his pupil and said to him, since 
you have become so clever, it is time that we should part. 
Hereupon he suddenly snatched his staff out of Abdulla's 
hand and thus* left him visible to the Raja, he himself de¬ 
parting. The Raja took Sheikh Abdulla by the hand, and 
inquired to whom he had been just speaking, and perceiving 
his dress which was foreign, asked where he had come from, 
and how he had got into his sleeping apartment, since the 
attendants were still asleep. So he received the informa¬ 
tion he demanded, and Sheikh Abdulla related all his 
adventures in company with the devil. Bagdad rejoined 
the Raja, by the accounts of navigators passing to and fro , 
betwixt it and Kedda , is from three to four months sailing 
distant. 
What is now the religion of this country, said the Sheikh 
addressing the Raja ? My religion, replied Raja Marong 
Mawangsa, and that of all my subjects is that which has 
been handed down to us by the people of old ; the old 
men of former days. We all worship idols. Has your 
highness then never beard of Isiamistn, and the koran 
which descended from God to Mahomed, whose tomb is at 
[ « ] A separate translation may be given hereafter of these travels. 
If the countries could be identified it might be useful in shewing where 
idolatry still prevailed. 
