262 A translation op the keddaii annals. 
I 
Chapter VIII. 
It must not be forgotten that all this while the inhabitants 
of Kedda were seized, put in chains, or imprisoned, at the 
caprice of the Raja. The four ministers were exceedingly 
vexed at these manifestations of the Rajd's disposition, for he 
had become very violent in his temper, and disdained to 
follow the wise councils, and system of ruling, of his ancestors. 
Now his highness had married a lady, the daughter of a 
Malayan Raja [still no name.] She was handsome, and 
moreover much liked, so that all those who had complaints 
to make preferred them to her. The mantris were also much 
attached to her; and sent their wives and children to visit 
her, to try and persuade her husband the Rdja to have more 
forbearance towards his subjects. 
At this time the prahu returned from Acheh bringing va¬ 
rious kinds of cut, and carved stones, for the building of the 
fort. These stones were of mountain rock. So the men 
worked on. 
One day while his highness was holding his Court, he 
requested an old minister to approach his person, when he 
thus addressed him,” I pray you, my lord, to inspect my teeth 
for I feel an irritation in the places of the two side teeth [a] 
like the symptoms of tooth cutting.” The old mantri (laconi¬ 
cally) replied. “ Tusks, your highness.” “ How can that be, 
said the latter laughing; if these are to be tusks, why did 
they not appear along with my other teeth when I was young.” 
“But, said another minister, if your highness will permit me, 
pray what food does your highness most approve of ?” Amang 
Maha Frit Durya laughed and rejoined “As to my meals I 
eat a stew or curry of leechek,” that is a dish of the stalks of 
greens stewed and curried down with their leaves. “Your 
highness, observed the minister, would find advantage in leav¬ 
ing off eating this dish of greens; as they are apt, if used 
frequently, to produce worms in the teeth ” “This may all be 
very well my lord, but I have been used to this kind of dish 
from my youth upwards, and cannot now give it up.” 
Then all held their tongues, but each one of the assembly 
was now aware that the tusks of the Raja had appeared. So 
they called him the Raja Rersiyong or Bi-siyong, or the 
tusked Rajd. Raja Rersiyong continued daily to attend the 
workmen at his fort until the sun was high, when he took 
the bath and then went to his breakfast. It happened one 
day that bis highness's cook was preparing the accustomed 
dish of curried greens for his breakfast. In this process she 
[a] “ Gigi maais,’'—I interpret this "canine teeth.” 
