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of tlie Raja there, and of his having got a son. So they all 
returned and reported their want of success to the fotn min¬ 
isters, Meanwhile the son of Rersiyong grew apace, and 
increased in comeliness and quickness of apprehension. 
The letter of the four raantris and the queen was delivered 
in due form to the Raja of Siam. The Raja gave it to a 
mantri to read, who having opened it, read as follows. 
This letter is from your majesty’s very humble slaves the four 
mantris, and also the queen, of the country of Kedda, in order 
to make known the state in which Kedda rests at present. It 
has had no legitimate Raja for a long while, the only rulers 
being your slaves, the four ministers. We therefore beseech 
your royal Majesty, to release us from our present charge, 
by raising to the government a Raja of pure descent;, so that 
all of us, slaves, may obtain a Raja or ruler, and that the 
country may be well governed. These observa'ijns your 
slaves submit to your majesty. 
The Raja of Siam having heard the letter thus read, ad- 
dressed an old mantri. Go my brother, said he, and call 
all the clever astrologers. When they came into the pre¬ 
sence the Raja said to him, inspect the horoscope, and dis¬ 
cover where a Raja of Kedda is to be found, and who the 
person is who is to be raised by me to the vacant Rajaship of 
Kedda. The astrologers opened accordingly their book, and 
inspected it, then they raised their heads. Well, said the 
Raja, what is the result ? O Shah i alum replied the diviner, 
the person who should become the Raja of Kedda is living 
in that country. He alone must be Raja, no one else in or 
out of Kedda should be raised to that dignity for he is of 
true lineage, and should any other person be placed in that 
government, then undoubtedly he would not be able to retain 
it for more than a year or two at the utmost; either through 
death or some great convulsion or disturbance, he would be 
deprived of it. if such be the case, rejoined the Raja, pray 
how am I to know where to find him ? The astrologers again 
looked at their paper or book, and haying inspected it as 
before, said to the Raja, the person is in existence, and his age 
is about six or seven years. But whoever shall be made 
Raja, he must be first discovered by the intelligence not of 
man but of animals. There is a supernaturally intelligent 
elephant on the confines of Kedda and Patani, named Karnala 
Jauhari, which is perhaps able to inform us who shall be the 
Kedda Raja, So he inquired of the Kedda envoys if they 
knew any thing about it. They replied that it was wandering 
alternately in Kedda and Patani, and that it would discover 
tself by causing some one to dream. The Raja of Siam 
