Malay annals / translated from the Malay language, by John Leyden. With an introduction by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

Date:
1821
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Malay annals / translated from the Malay language, by John Leyden. With an introduction by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SAJ ARAH MALAYU. ‘Tur aa of this Da commences with | stating, that he will declare sincerely what he regards as the truth, according to the best of His? information. “The occasion of the composition of the work is stated by the author to be the following. « T happened to be present at an assembly of the learned and noble, when one of the principal per-- sons of the party observed to me,’ that he had heard of a Malay story, which had been lately brought by a nobleman from the land of Gua, and’ that it would be proper for some person to correct it according to the institutions of the Ma- lays, that’ it might be useful to posterity. : On hearing this, I was firmly determined to attempt the work. On this occasion were B