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who tried to seize him and attacked Phra Ong Surin with his 
dagger. They were fighting stoutly, when Sangwira Ang- 
kara, the Raja of the' Girgassi seized his sirubah and Phra 
Sang Dati Kosa seized his jagar and sprung forward to assist 
Phra Ong Surin, and he tried to wrest Kalana Hetam’s 
dagger out of his hands, in which attempt it broke. Kalana 
tried now to unstheath his kris, but Sangvvira Angkara threw 
his iron siruba (a) at Kalana Hetam, which twisting round 
his body secured his arms, and brought to the ground, when 
he was instantly bound and sent to Kalahom. Kalahom now 
sent to call as many of Kalana Hetam’s men as might chuse 
to come and submit to him. 
Kalahom told the four Girgassi Rajas to take all the Rajas, 
chiefs, officers, and men of Kalana Hetam, [who had been 
captured or who submitted] and their property and families 
to the great Raja of Siam, that his majesty might allot them 
a district to live in; because Kalana’s men were brcwe , and 
their bodies were invulnerable to steel, and would be valuable 
as servants of the king. .Further Kalahom instructed them 
to give a full account to his majesty ot all that had passed. 
The Raja of Ligor , who was present, said to Kalahom — 
Your slave is ‘ of opinion that all the forces of the five or six. 
provinces now assembled around your highness’s camp ought 
to accompany your highness to Kedda, in case more enemies 
may be lying in wait on the way. [15] 
NOTES. 
[15] There appears to me no reason for our not believing that 
an engagement took place betwixt the Siamese forces and those of 
another nation, in the direction assigne l by our author; although 
lie seems to have drawn for some of his details on a rather exuber¬ 
ant imagination acd perhaps on various Hindu or Javan authorities. 
Ilis heroes are desctihed in somewhat of a homeric strain, if small 
things can be at all compared with great, and he is certainly equally 
unscrupulous in his employment of supernatural machinery. There 
ate still extensive plains betwixt Ligor and Ke Ida, 
The Siamese army was commanded as it would have now been 
under similar circumstances by the Kalahom; this officer is placed 
at the head of Siamese troops destined to act along the coast, the 
Chukkri commanding forces sent inland. 
Kalana Hetam the general of the opposing army is here stated to 
have come from a lake to the eastward ot Pegu, but of sucli a lake 
I have not been able to get any account. Kalana in Malayu means 
(a ) A sort of iron lasso. 
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