A TRANSLATION OF THE KEDDA ANNALS, 477 
Abdulla fbanking the donors. So Sheikh Abdulla redoubled 
ins labors—and erected additional small mosques in rll the 
different villages for general convenience. He also directed 
the five prayers for each day, and be ordained that in the 
month of Ramzan a measure, of Bagdad, of rice should be 
given to the poor by each person for the purpose ot purifying 
th' ir bodies He also directed that at the great festival 
where prayers are offered up, the-name of the Sultan should 
be mentioned in them. [ e ] 
All such rules and observances are for the purpose of keep¬ 
ing the faith in the minds ot the multitude and lor perpetua¬ 
ting the same till the day of judgment. 
The sacrifice of animals, such as buffalos or goats, on (lie 
tenth day of the month Daihaija, and agreeably to the mode 
pr ctised at Mecca, is to be performed by every one 
The Raja and his wife were constantly with the Sheikh 
learning to read the koran The royal pair searched also 
for some handsome girl, daughter of a rnantri and ot the 
lineage of the Rajas of the country, to be the Sheikh s wife. 
Bui no one could be found willing to give his daughter thus 
in marriage, because the holy man was about to return to 
Bagdad, and only waited until he had sufficiently instructed 
some person to supply his place. 
Now at this period the Sultan had three sons Raja Mazim 
Shah, Raja Mohamad Shah and Raja Soliman Shall. These 
names were borrowed from the koran by Sheikh Abdulla, 
and bestowed upon the princes ; whom he exhorted to be pa¬ 
tient and slow to anger in their intercourse with their .slaves 
and the lower orders, and to regard with pity all the slaves 
of God, and the poor and needy. 
Chapter XIV. - 
To proceed. It is mentioned in sayings [which have been 
banded down to us] that Raja Bulu Bittong, husband of Putri 
Saloang he who had received instructions from Raja Pra- 
ong Malta Potisat to proceed to the N. N. West,* in quest 
of a spot to settle on and build a fort and palace, bad departed 
accordingly, in his absence Putri Saloang fixed her affections 
upon the son of one of the four mantris, and the result of 
[ 5 ] Here follow various directions foi fasts, prayers and other observance* 
as practiced, at Mec a, which, as comprising those now existing in wpste n 
Mahometan commies, are 100 well known to require repetition here, inde¬ 
pendently of encumBering an historical translated work with dissertations on 
divinity, 1 hive retained <mly so much as imy serve to illustrate the mari¬ 
ne's of die people of Kedda at the period, and the way in which they wero 
converted. The list of fasts may be found in the Straits Almanacs. 
