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 surat berka [seh-kasehan] dengan Pangeran Adipati di negri Jambi itu, supaya jangan lagi berantara negri Birni dan negri Jambi itu sa-lama-lama-nya. Maka ada-lah yang negri Birni [dan] Jambi itu upama sa-buah negri jua ada-nya. Ada pun yang di-kehendaki paduka Sri Sultan, jikalau ada kaseh tulus ekblas Pangeran Adipati itu, paduka Sri] Sultan mehendaki membli sendawa, itu-lah yarg di-kehendaki paduka Sri Sultan ka-pada Pangeran Adipati. Sa-bermula pula jikalau ada kaseh tolong Sinnyor Kapitan] akan bêta minta tolong membli kain gabar itu -lah jikalau ada kaseh tolong Sinnyor Kapitan. Shahadan yang utusan deri Birni itu, petaroh bêta-lah pada pertaina nya ka -pada Allah Tuhan ‘alam sakalian-nya, dan berkat nabi niya 'alaibum ' s-sallama, kemdian dengan tolong plihara Sinnyor lah akan segala merika'itu jikalau ada khilaf belal-nya; demikian - lah yang beta kehendaki kaseh tulus ekhlas Sinnyor akan bêta. Ada pun kaseh bêta akan Sinnyor Kapitan hanya degan sa'orang dan tikar besemborg, Inaka jangan apa kira-nya Sinnyor 'aibkan deri-pada tanda ekhlas bati bêta jua ada-nya akan Sinnyor Kapitan.

A letter of unending friendship and unmarred pleasure, like eternal sunshine, from me the Raja Bendabara Paduka Sri Maha raja, prince in Birni (?) to the English Captain at Jambi, who is very much more intelligent than all his enemies and adversaries, and it is he who is very faithful to all his [friends and] companions, and it is he whose report is widely published in all lands, and who is very charitable to all beggars and poor people, and it is he who satisfies the needs and desires of all the unfortunates who are dependent upon him. Such a report of him has been spread throughout all lands, so that loving desire has arisen [ because of] such a report. Amma b'adu, after that, I am sending (?) this to express the friendship of my heart to the English Captain. Now His Highness the Sultan [of Birni] is sending Sri Lêla Diraja and Sri Setia Pahlawan and Sri Raja Khatib and all those who are with them to take this letter of [affection] to my lord the Governor at Jambi, so that Birniand Jambi should not be sundered for ever, for Birni [and] Jambi are as if they were one country. Now that which is desired by His Highness the Sultan, if there is love sincerity and friendship with