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He ascended the liver to Naning, where he found no other inhabitants 

 than the Jacoons, (a tribe of the Rdyet UtanJ, and settled at Taboo 

 and took to wife one of the Jacoon damsels ; an example speedily 

 followed by his vassals. This little colony gradually spread itself over 

 Sungie-ujong, Rambowe, Johole, and other places, chiefly inhabited 

 by the aborigines, (who gradually betook themselves to the woods and 

 mountains, as the intruders encroached,) viz. Jompole, Serling, Jella- 

 bu, Sriminanti, and Terachi. 



In course, of time, Tu Pattair died, and was buried at Liibo Kop- 

 pong, in Naning, where his tomb is to this day venerated as a Krdmet. 

 From these accounts then it would appear, that the present inhabitants 

 of the interior of the part of the peninsula here spoken of, are chiefly 

 descendants from the Menangkabowes and Jacoons ; and those on its 

 coasts, from the Malays who fled from Singhapura, and the Rdyet Laut. 



The new settlers, rapidly increasing in numbers, divided themselves 

 into nine petty states, under as many Panghulus or chiefs, feudal to 

 the Malayan Sultans of Malacca, and after their expulsion by Euro- 

 pean powers, to those of Johore, by whom they were consolidated 

 under the name of the Negri Sambilan, or the nine territories. 



The names of these states, and the titles bestowed on their chiefs 

 by the Sultans of Johore, are as follow, viz. Segamet, under Orang 

 Kavu Mu'da ; Johole, Johan Le'lah Percasseh ; Naning, Maha- 

 raja Le'lah ; Sungie-iljong, Klana Pu'tra ; Jellabii, Akhir zema'n; 

 Rambowe, Le'lah Maharaja ; Calang or Salengore, Tu'nku Ca- 

 lang, Ulu Pahang, including Serting and Jompole, Raja Andra 

 Seka'ra, and Jellye, under Maharaja Pu'rba. 



These titles were hereditary, and their possessors used to present 

 themselves (Mengadap) once a year at the court of Johore. 



In a manuscript collection of treaties made by the Dutch in the east, 

 are found contracts principally of a friendly and commercial character, 

 with Rambowe and the Negri Sambilan, from 1646 down to 1759. 

 Prior to this period, the Dutch had assumed considerable influence over 

 the nine Negris : and, with the formal consent of the king of Johore, 

 Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah elected a Bugis prince, named Dyen Cam- 

 bodia, as chief over the whole nine. Naning had long fallen into the 

 hands of the European Government at Malacca, and Sriminanti rising 

 into importance, tacitly assumed its place among the nine Negris. 



The Menangkabowes, disgusted with the arbitrary proceedings of 

 their Bugis ruler, invited over one of the princes of the blood royal of 

 Menangkabowe from Sumatra, named Raja Malaywar. The Pan- 

 ghulus of Sungie-ujong, Rambowe, Johole, and Sriminanti espoused 



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