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demanded that the "Moor" in question should be delivered up to him, but the King of Pâseh, as became a Malayan râja, made all manner of specious excuses, and professed his utter inability to lay hands on the conspirator. Dalboquerque, conceiving that the hour had not yet come for the declaration of hostilities with the King of Pâseh, concealed his chagrin as best he might, and proceeded on his way to Malacca. Chance, however, favoured him, for he presently caught sight of a large native vessel, which his people captured after a hard fight. On board this ship they found Naodabegea himself, "half dead, without any blood flowing from the numerous wounds which he had received. Aires Pereira commanded the mariners to throw him into the sea just as he was; but when they perceived that he was richly clothed, they sought first of all to strip him, and then they found on his left arm a bracelet of bone, set in gold, and when they took this off his blood flowed away and he expired." The survivors of the crew informed. Dalboquerque that "the bracelet was formed of the bones of certain animals which were called cabals, that are bred in the mountain ranges of the kingdom of Siam, and the person who carries these bones so that they touch his flesh can never lose his blood, however many wounds he may receive, so long as they are kept on him."

The term used by the natives was unquestionable kĕbal (often pronounced kâbal by the Malays of Sumatra) which means invulnerable, and all they intended to convey was, we may surmise, that the bracelet was a charm which conferred this advantage upon its possessor, and