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D. Where should I let thee go and fight, my heart, my star, the light of mine eyes?
S. If you let me not go and fight then, by my body, I shall not be a panglima.
D. If that place suits thee not, go as panglima to the kuta (fortress) of Chutli.
S. I will not establish myself in Chutli; it is too close to the shore, on the border of the estuary.
D. If that please thee not, little brother, little heart, I will set thee at Babah Awé (above Kuala Unga).
S. I will not establish myself at Babah Awé, for I fear to die there with not one to care for me (i. e. for my burial).
D. It that please thee not, blessed little brother, I will settle thee in the 12 Rantòs[1].
S. I will not live in the 12 Rantòs, brother; tell me, what mean you by this proposal?
D. Our intention was, blessed little brother, to take thee there to the house of the Raja Muda (of Trumòn).
S. We can have naught to do now with the Raja of Trumòn, for he is in the pay of the Tuan Beusa[2].
D. Where didst thou learn that, blessed little brother? Tell me I pray.
S. I know it but too well, brother, I have but just returned from there, the day before yesterday as it were.
D. As you pass along the rantòs of the West Coast, little brother, how many places are subject to the Dutch?
S. Beginning at Padang right up to Singkel, all tribute is raised for the King of Holland.
D. When you come, little brother of mine, to the bay of Tapaʾ Tuan (vulg. Těmpat Tuan), who is king there?
S. The king there is indeed a Moslim, but the flag is that of the Dutch.
D. When you get to Labōh Haji (vulg. Labuan Haji), who is king there?
S. The ulèëbalang of that place is a woman[3], she keeps us all in her protection.
