442. Cod.Or. 5548 File containing two sheaves of paper numbered I and II; Prof. A.C. Vreede bequest (1908). I Dutch; II 47 ff.; wove paper; wm. LACROIX FRERES (second half of 19th c.); 27 x 21 Vi cm.; Roman characters; containing a folk-tale about two birds and a tortoise in different Javanese dialects; ff. 25v-r: Dongeng boeroeng anam dan koera-koera; 37 lines per p.; Batavia Malay; the text contains three stories about the anam birds and the tortoise. When the pond where they are living dries up, the birds decide to move the tortoise to a better place; grasping each end of a stick in their beaks the tortoise is urged to bite onto the stick with his mouth; when they are flying over a village people watch them with admiration and clap their hands; the tortoise begins to talk and plummets to his death. Pigeaud 1968, p. 324.

443. Cod.Or. 5554 Wallet containing letters etc.; A.C. Vreede bequest; in 7 files. A I Letter, from Panembahan Tjokro Adiningrat (Madura) to the Resident (Jhr) Mr. (H.C.) van der Wijck, Surabaya; dated 1 January 1859; in a yellow silk cover; Roman characters. II Letters', 13 copies of letters from the British East India Company to the raja and other chiefs of the west coast of Sumatra (Singkel, Minangkabau etc.); dated 1822-1824. B I Letter, from Sultan Muhammad Syah of Lingga to J.H. Walbeehm, deputy of the Resident of Riau; dated 29 Dzulhijjah 1254/15 March 1839. II Pleas', 10 pleas sent to the Dutch commander of Natal (west coast of Sumatra) dated 1829-1835. III Letters', 3 letters from the chiefs on the west coast of Sumatra to the Dutch commander and 1 from the latter to the chiefs of a certain place; dated 1829-1833.