a translation op the keddah annals. 2f>5 
CJumpar laughing, this mad R&jd trying to get my heart and 
blood, but cannot succeed ! perhaps he may get the heart and 
blood of some beast instead.’* 
The Rfija not listening to this language, again tried to kill 
Gumpar with a spear, and all his people assisted in thrusting 
and cutting at him ; there was a great hubbub, and people 
outside of the fort were astonished to learn that there was 
amoking within it. Gurnpar was hard pressed, but he now 
turned his body a little and assumed the shape ot a boar ot 
immense size and having prodigious tushes, and rushed with 
speed betwixt the legs of Raja Bersiyong, who was thus rolled 
over, and whose spear was broken, and its head snapped oft 
in two. Bnt that huge boar was not wounded, lhe boar 
again ran straight at the Raja, who however did not receive 
any wound, his clothes only being torn and scattered. So 
Bersiyong snatched his sword once more to try his strength, 
for he cared not for his own person, and hundreds came to 
his assistance. The boar feeling himself rather getting the 
worst of it, suddenly stirred and shook his head and body, and 
became a fearful tiddong silia or hooded snake, the girth of 
which was that of a cocoanut tree, whose tongue was lolling 
out, and whose eyes were large as cymbals. 
The people amazed, dispersed, only a few daring persons 
remained and beat the snake. Men again assembled in 
greater numbers with loud shouts and noise to destroy the 
snake. The latter pursued the Raja who fought for shelter 
behind a tree. And now arrived the four ministers with the 
government officers and numbers of attendants $ who drawing 
their swords entered the fort to arrest the tumult. The 
snake did not like this accession to his opponents, so he con¬ 
verted himself into a very fierce royal tiger ot great size and 
length, and then roared tremenduously like thunder, or the 
noise of the day of judgment, nothing in reality could be 
louder, while it was also mixed with the cries of men. So the 
crowd dispersed. 
The four mantris hereupon presented their blunderbusses [£] 
at the body of the tiger, which although it was not wounded, 
felt very much pained, and all the balls glanced off his person. 
This attack made the tiger seek safety in flight. Having 
sprang towards the fort-gate and got safely out, he escaped 
to the forest without being seriously injured. [14] 
The four chiefs having thus by one discharge each, driven 
off the tiger, proceeded towards the hall of audience, to see if 
[ b ] Of course this is an embellishment of the historian as the blunderbuss- 
was not known to the Malaya until the advent of the Portuguese, 
