264 A TRANSLATION OF THE KEDDAH ANNALS. 
made of bis heart and blood, and be directed the blood to be 
poured out and a sauce to be made of it# 
The Raja found all this a great improvement to the relish 
of his meals, and so it became his daily custom to have such 
dishes served up to him. All other food he loathed, and he 
went on until he had fairly cleared bis jail, and absorbed all 
the out of jail prisoners who were in chains or in the stock#. 
It mattered not to Rdja Bersiyong, whether the delinquen¬ 
cies of these men were trifling or of magnitude, all of them 
were sacrificed to his horrid gluttony. But he had no inten¬ 
tion to stop here, after he had thus exhausted his stock of 
criminals, he had some person seized daily to supply his meals. 
It soon however become known to all, that the Raja had 
become an eater of human hearts and blood, and the prime 
ministers became sadly affected when crowds of people came 
to complain to them. Here one had lost a father, there a 
sister or a wife or other near relative, whose flesh, hearts and 
blood, R£ja Bersiyong had devoured. [13] 
There was a man named Gumpar of Sri Gunong Ledang 
hill, a consummate villain. He was versed in all kinds of 
knowledge, good and bad; and his body was impervious to 
steel. N T ow this fellow being confident of his own skill per¬ 
mitted himself to be seized by the Raja’s people. 
On account of his thus putting himself in the way of being 
seized, people thought that he had slain a man; he was for the 
supposed offence carried before the Raja, who no sooner 
beheld him than he rushed down with his drawn sword in his 
hand, and ordered him to be killed. Gumpar exclaimed— 
“ This Raja does not justly examine into cases, but sits 
quietly down and orders people to be slain.” 
The Raja being enraged at this speech, approached Gum¬ 
par, sword in hand, to cut him down. “Is Raja Birsiyong 
mad, that he wishes to inflict punishment before he has ex¬ 
amined the charge against me ?” said Gumpar. 
When the Raja heard these expressions, made as if with 
the intent to provoke him to eat men’s hearts and blood, his 
sword descended swiftly on the body of Gumpar cutting 
away all the fastenings which held him, but without inflicting 
any wound on his person. Gumpar laughed and said, “ your 
highness will have a full feast to-day on my heart and blood, 
will you ?” Quiekly then did Bersiyong cut again at Gumpar, 
but he missed him. Then he cut and slashed away, but 
Gumpar smiled and remained unhurt and immoveable. The 
Rfija called out then to all his people to slay the man. Sa 
they came and stabbed and cut at Gumpar with all kinds of 
weapons, but made no impression upon his person, “ (See said 
