THE 
JOURNAL 
«P THE 
THE INDIAN AHCMPELAGO 
AND 
EASTERN ASIA. 
A TRANSLATION OF THE KEDDAH ANNALS.* 
By Lieut,-Col. James Low, c, m. r. a. s & m, a, s. 
Chapter IX, 
One day the four mantris assembled in council, and resolved 
to write a letter in their names and in the name of the queen 
of Raja Bersiyong to the central country (binua) of Siam, to 
intimate that there was no Raja then ruling in Kedda; and 
to request that a Raja might be sought for and vouchsafed 
for governing Kedda through them the mantris . 
Envoys accordingly proceeded to Siam with a letter to the 
above effect. 
Now it is related that when Raja Bersiyong had escaped 
and got clear of the forest with the loss of all his arms, he 
arrived after some time at the hut of a peasant who had a 
clearance in the forest on the confines of Patani and Kedda; 
and who there cultivated the betel vine and rice. Of his 
* own accord Raja Bersiyong worn out as he was by hunger 
and fear, craved permission of the peasant to let him become 
an inmate of his house, and offering at the. same time to 
* Continued from page 270. 
VOL. III. NO. VI, JUNE, 1849. 
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