[188] See plate of the position of the Matàrem army.
[189] Dagger.
[190] Of Sália.
[191] Milton says:
"Sky lowered, and muttering thunder, some sad drops,
"Wept at completion of the mortal sin."
And a modern poet selected the passage as an example of the exercise of a truly poetical imagination.
[192] With Síri juice.
[193] Bridge.
[194] Having since my return to England put these illustrations of the Brata Yudha in the hands of a relative (the Rev. Thomas Raffles, of Liverpool,) he has been kind enough to give the translation a poetical dress, and I regret that the limits of the present volume do not admit of their insertion in this form, in justice to the poetry of Java and the talent which he has displayed. The following example of the last stanzas may serve as a specimen of the style and spirit in which the task has been executed.
603. Wearied with fruitless search, and in despair
To find the object of her pious care,
Her murder'd lord, who on the battle plain
Lay all neglected mid the thousands slain,
She drew the dagger from its sheath of rest,
Intent to plunge it in her heaving breast.
Just then, as if in pity to her grief,
Flash'd the red light'ning to the maid's relief,
And shew'd with horrid glare the bloody way
To where her husband's mangled body lay.