J62 THE VIRGIN DAUGHTER OF SUT.TAN BONGSU. 
agi raja Tunggal “ Aye, Nakhoda” ujar a “ Sade ko meus engapeut 
amban barongan ko haran saja ka Naknoda. Maka Nakhoda jisa 
tikat engan Si Miskin. Balit Nakhoda (p’mta pinta ateko kai jisa !) 
Te anakhoda jisa mangkeutn amba-rayit—pinta ateko majinih. 
Kabuda umur na masi ra udip. Ko kureu kabaita. Sade ko mens 
engapeut lawan-a. Asal enga engasi Nakhoda, ikolah malawan do 
Sade ko. Maka paminta Sade ko mint a burukn muri, dapeut nan 
kaneuh Si Miskin, ko engawin lah nih maia. Nan kagaleus paka- 
ta ko engan Nakhoda. Asal ra bamalu, sa lawan a. Entageutn 
dipanchong bawa maran, bakata nyeu lamur engkai Nakhoda kara- 
sa meus engkeumeus na, kata nyeu lamur ga kai. Bakata nih ma¬ 
ia “ kuna akal ko di kai bisi wang sa, ujar a. Pulakn ko sa,” ujar 
a. Balayar nan nih maia. 
The meaning of the story. 
I have not the time to follow the above through for translation, 
nor is it worth the manual labor : X have given it for the language 
sake, though a deal of Malay is quite unnecessarily in it: it is, of 
course, a Malay story, dressed in a chawat. The outline is that the 
Sultan was desirous of a son-in-law, and the Nakhoda, hearing of it, 
came ; and after, spending three days in inquiry whether any wooer 
w T ere on the spot, opened his proposals in form, offering400 of mo¬ 
ney to help his acceptability. The princess Bandang Ayer, however, 
had long known and loved Si Miskin, and replied to her father 
(who had told her who had come, and what his errand) that nei¬ 
ther 400 nor 4,000 would answer at present. “ I am ” said she 
“ desirous of a husband, but I must first have, from him who would 
be such, a bird who can read” and a monkey and a musang of no 
little power to amuse. Of course the Nakhoda and Si Miskin had, 
each, now hut one desire; but, rather oddly, we find the rivals go¬ 
ing in the same vessel to the various mountains (i. e. the shore near 
them) whose names you have recognised. Si Miskin obtained the 
necessary gifts, and, when the Nakhoda saw them lie spoke of their 
worthlessness, intending however, to own them himself at the earli¬ 
est moment. “ Hot weather, this,” said he one day to the unsus¬ 
picious Miskin, “ let us bathe,” and the Nakhoda suited the action 
to the word ; after a few plunges, seeing Miskin ready to follow, he 
left the water and, seizing a moment when M. put his head under 
water, stood prepared to kill him with a tombak as he rose. lie 
did so, and finally came home with the bird &c. reporting Miskin 
