Sang nila utama biography of albert

The story of Sang Nila Utama, who stayed at Bentan. 

SANG Nila Utama remained at Bentan highly enamoured of his wife, Wan Sri Bini. On  a day, however, after a long time had elapsed, he was seized with a desire of going to divert himself to Tanjong Bemban, and wishing to carry his young wife along with him, he asked permission of his mother-in-law,  the Queen Paramisuri Secander Shah.

The queen remonstrated with him, asking what was the need to go to Bemban to divert himself, a place where there was neither elk, nor hog-deer, neither deer nor porcupine, where there was neither variety of fish in the sea, nor sea-flowers on the rocks, where-as there was every kind of fruit and flower in  the garden.

 

Sang Nila Utama however declared  that he had viewed all the streams of Bentan till he was tired; that he had been informed that Tanjong Bemban was a very fine place, and therefore he wished to visit it, and that if he did not obtain permission he