Note 43 — Chapter XVII · [CONTINUATION OF STERN’S COMPOSITION.]
Alphonse Nahuys translation
Stumbling over half-rotten bamboo and pieces of the fallen roof, he made his way to the sanctuary which he sought. And, indeed, he found something of the still standing pagger,43 near to which the baleh-baleh of Adinda had stood, and even the pin of bamboo was still with its point in that pagger, the pin on which she hung her dress when she went to bed.…