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32; pocug: mBah K’a Ha Sirj applies to the Resident for a permit to buy up cattle in the hills. 33; sinom: mBah K’a Ha Sii3 makes tours to various places. 34; kinanti: mBah K’a Ha Sirj participates in the supply of victuals (to Govern ment) 35; dandag gula: mBah K’a Ha Sig, Ka Ti Yag Han, boating, fall into the river 36; smaradana: mBah K’a Ha Sir; takes Nah Si Yu as wife. 37; mas kumambag: mBah K’a Ha Sig’s mother wants to go to Magëlag. 38; pagkur: mBah K'a Ha Sig will take fvlah Sog Wat as wife. 39; sinom: mBah K’a Ha Sig becomes a member of the (Dutch) Club (of Yogyakarta). 40; mijil: mBah K’a Ha Sir; is a partner of Lim Kim Li^, sending trade com modities to various places. 41; dandag gula: mBah K’a Ha Sir; lends money to Tuwan Panélit (?). 42; durma: mBah K’a Ha Sig becomes a Master of Maliyo Bara (the freema sons’ lodge of Yogyakarta). 43; smaradana: mBah K’a Ha Sir; goes to Juwana, visits Sëprapat Gëtèk (a lo cality). 44; pagkur: mBah K’a Ha Sir; participates in the lease (of the Government opium régie) of Surakarta. 45; sinom: mBah K’a Ha Sir; and Li Yog Wat go to Batavia. 46; kinanti: mBah K’a Ha Sir; looks for a clerk and other things. 47; smaradana: mBah K’a Ha Sii3 visits small (opium selling) places on lease in the villages.

48; dandag gula: mBah K’a Ha Si? s brother arrives from China. 49; mijil: mBah K’a Ha Sig and his wife move to Surakarta. 50; pagkur: mBah K’a Ha Sir; goes to Japara to attend a Ha Pig (Chinese religious) celebration; afterwards he i s imprisoned (for debt to Government)- 51; mas kumanbag: mBah K’a Ha Sig s mother visits him in prison. 52; mëgatruh: mBah K’a Cu Sir; returns to his own house. 53; sinom: mBah K’a Cu Sir; falls ill, he asks for mBah K’a Ha Sir;. 54; dandag gula: mBah K’a Cu Sig dies, he is buried. The concluding cantos (no 77 and 78) contain the description of elaborate funeral ceremonies in Ko Ho Sig’s house in Ganda Manan, Yogyakarta. Prince Paku Alam and many Dutch gentlemen were present. Ko Ho Sig was made a Master of the Masonic Lodge of Yogyakarta in 1872 (see canto 42 above), as such he was a brother of Pagéran Arya Surya Dilaga, of the Paku Alam House, and also of Dr Groneman, a well' known Dutch writer on Yogyakarta Court customs and ceremonies. About 40 loose leaves are appended to the Javanese manuscript as addenda. They contain original official papers and letters, written in bazaar-Malay and Dutch, ad dressed to Ko Ho Sir;, and also his portrait, a crayon drawing, not without merit. A Javanese poem in kinanti verse (3d stanzas) on the life of Tumëggug Mërta Guna of Lasëm is a particularly interesting item of the addenda. He was a Chinese trader originally called Cik Go Ing; he