Malayan Literature_ Comprising Romantic Ta - Unknown

and forty heralds who stood below the throne ready to take the orders of the King and carry to him the word ...

"What is this language in which the King is speaking?" said the minister. "Last night," said the King, ...

"Paternal Uncle of the King," which he was in fact. And that is the first title of the bendahari. Sultan Ma ...

Having reached the audience-chamber, the letter was received by the chief of heralds of the right, the one of the l ...

bracelets, each according to his dignity. Some had bracelets in the form of a dragon with amulets, ot ...

costume for a long time were allowed to wear it at prayers and at weddings. Festival days, great or sm ...

THE PRINCESS DJOUHER-MANIKAM [Translated by Aristide Marre and Chauncey C. Starkweather] This is the history o ...

the pilgrimage, kept silence and restrained his anger, and then departed and returned to the palace. Some days ...

The prince's letter reached the cadi. The latter gave all his efforts to the good administration of the country, ...

And you, cadi, why do you act so? My father gave you a charge. He sent you a letter which commanded you to ...

over his eyes and directed his cutlass against his sister's neck. But at that instant, by the will of God ...

him, bowing low: "O my lord, King of the world, why does your Majesty wish to go hunting in foreign cou ...

Asraf-el-Kaum plunged the emerald pitcher into the pond, and filled it with water. Then he asked permission to ...

added: "O Asraf-el-Kaum, perhaps, as with the prophet Zachariah (upon whom be blessings!), her prayer has bee ...

were happy and full of tenderness for each other. Within a few years the princess had two sons, both ver ...

Princess Djouher-Manikam answered, "O my lord, my father is named Haroun-er-Raschid, King of Bagdad." Clasping ...

and faithful to me. Beside, you are older than the other ministers. And you have the fear of God the most hig ...

So the rebel minister started, and entered the tent of the princess, and asked her to marry him. He foun ...

And the wicked minister said: "If you will not marry me, I will kill you, too." Then the princess th ...

They added that the minister had departed, leaving word that he had gone to find the princess, and had ...