Batavia ; for such is our custom , that when a Raja dies it is as if the judgment day had come, for there is confusion in the country. That was how it was that in the opinion of your friend the Captain Laut it was best that I with the Raja of Ternati should still remain in Macassar. Pardon, a thousand pardons of my friend the Heer Gourerneur General. I have nothing as a present to Heer General but two lads, as a mere token of sincerity and friendship, just like a couple of mustard seeds ; do not despise the present. For your friend the Captain Laut is an ignorant man, and has made a poor hand of composing the words of this letter, so if there is any mistake I ask pardon of the Heer Gouverneur General. Finis.
Written at Fort Parinringa, near the city of Rotterdam , on the twenty-eighth ( twenty -ninth ) day of the month jamadi 'l awwal, of the year jim, in the era of the prophet (may God bless him and give him peace) one thousand and eighty exactly.
(In Dutch) The Captain Laut of Buton.
E.—Letter from the King of Jambi to the Governor General at Batavia.
قولي لو دلوان
المومی فغير
ج جلاله
سورة كاسه سرت نولس دان اخلاص يغ تياد برفتوسن درفد فغیران رات دانغ كند پوهن متشكور كرندر جنرال يغ منهاي ? تحت كسارن دالم 1.
