134 FIRST SETTLEMENT. 



hara (treasurer or first minister) took to himself 

 the territory of Pahang, on the eastern coast of 

 the Malay peninsula, and is now commonly de- 

 signated rajah of that place. The Tumangung, 

 or chief judge, seized upon the corresponding 

 territory, on the western side, with the adjacent 

 islands. This is the person from whom we re- 

 ceived the first grant of our factory. He in- 

 formed me," continues Crawford, " that he had 

 settled in Singapore for the first time, in 1811, 

 a few months before our expedition passed 

 through tlie harbour, on its route to the capture 

 of Java. 



" Sultan Mahomet had two illegitimate sons, 

 wlio were competitors for the throne, but the 

 claims of neither were attended to, and they 

 continued in a state of vagrancy and poverty 

 until the Dutch and English governments, for 

 their own purposes, thought it necessary to pa- 

 tronize respectively one of the parties. One of 

 them, now acknowledged Sultan ofJehore, and 

 who still resides in the island, came over to it a 

 short time after our first occupation, and was, in 

 due course, placed upon our pension list. It 

 was with this individual, and the inferior chief 

 already named, that a treaty for the cession of 

 the island was concluded in August, 1824. 

 They received for the sovereignty and fee-simple 



