254 A translation of the keddah annals. 
One day when Sri M&hawangsd was holding his Court 
amidst his ministers and officers of state, he addressed the 
four ministers, requesting them to assemble all the gold and 
silver-smiths, the iron-smiths and the carpenters of the 
place. These artificers presented themselves before the 
prince and received his orders. But it was very difficult 
to please his highness, so that it took several years before 
the present could be got ready. He even for a while delay¬ 
ed the building of his fort. There was at length prepared 
a golden tree, having golden flowers, and also one of silver 
with silver flowers. There were besides, a double pointed 
and barbed [a] spear adorned with red gold and ferrolled 
with silver,—a spear with a sharp slender point adorned 
with gold and silver, and a spear called <s the flowered 
spear” embossed with gold and silver, and weapons and 
spears and shields complete for warriors. 
These were all approved of by his highness, and ordered to 
he sent for the amusement of his nephew, the son of the 
Raja of Siam, and in order that the name of the donor 
should be exalted for the future. The gifts were given in 
charge to a mantri, with a train of one hundred men besides 
the Siamese envoys, and honorary dresses were llfcstowed on 
the whole. The Raja further instructed the envoys to 
convey to his elder brother his request, that should he have 
other children, he should not fail to apprize him of it, and 
that if he himself should happen to be dead, the custom 
should be kept up as regarded his descendants as evidence 
of mutual fraternal affection. Then all the ministers and 
envoys who were about to set out, made respectful obeisance 
and promised faithfully to repeat his highness* words to his 
brother the Raja of Siam. So the party set out for the 
country of Siam and some time after reached it. Tt happen 
that the Raja there was seated in a large assembly of his 
courtiers and state officers, and the young prince was also 
present to witness the opening of the presents transmitted 
from Kedda, The Rkja was very much pleased with all of 
these, and at the play things which his brother had sent for 
his nephew the young prince. Then turning to the envoys 
who had brought these, and the gold and silver flowers, he 
inquired respecting the welfare of his brother, and Kedda, 
and if the population of his country was large or other¬ 
wise. 'Ihe envoys replied in the manner directed by their 
master. The Raja of Siam was exceedingly pleased with 
[«] A barbed ipear. 
