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weapons offered him by the armourer, selected an old rusty looking 

 kris, blackened by the smoke and resin of the dammer torches, to the 

 trimming of which it had been constantly applied. He then returned 

 to the Capitan, and informed his astonished employer that the rejected 

 weapon he held in his hand, was the kris destined to pour out the 

 blood of Delangit as a sacrifice to the insulted honor of the Sultan. 



With this wonderful weapon (fit companion for the enchanted 

 sword of king Arthur), Juara returned to Naning. But Delangit, 

 hearing of his purpose, had already fled thence into Muar, and concealed 

 himself with the concubine amid the fastnesses of that wild country. 

 Thither the persevering Juara tracked his victim, and coming up 

 with him at the mouth of the river, plunged the fatal steel deep into 

 his heart. 



The concubine he conveyed in safety to Malacca, whence she was 

 sent, with an account of what had occurred, by the Capitan, to the 

 Sultan of Johore. The Sultan recommended Juara to the Dutch 

 government, who made him Panghdld of Naning; and bestowed on 

 him as mark of royal favor, two slaves, a man and woman ; (from 

 whom the Sukii or tribe at present known by the appellation of Tigd 

 Nenek sprang;) a sword, termed Uldr-kenydng, " the satiated serpent," 

 a silk bdjd or vest, and lastly, a tract of the Gominchi territory, hence 

 called Pembdshu lungan. To the Capitan Malay u was given a piece 

 of land extending from Kleybang to the Sungi Baru river, and inland 

 to Bertam. The title Sri Raja Merah, the sword, Baju, and a genea- 

 logical book, generally preserved in the families of Malayan princes 

 and noblemen, called Silselah, have descended to Juara's succes- 

 sors as a Kabesdran, or regalia. 



Juara Magat was succeeded, agreeably to the Mendngkdbowe law 

 of succession, by his sister's son, Kukah ; to Kukah succeeded Ean- 

 garang or Mulana Garang, Jangot, Tambah, and Anjak or Bukit 

 Jootor. The present ex-Panghulu Abdul Say ad or Dhol Sayad, suc- 

 ceeded his uncle Anjak, in 1801, when he was confirmed in his 

 office by the British Resident at Malacca, colonel Taylor. 



When Abdul Sayad had control in Naning, the Kabesdran of his 

 ancestors was kept in a house-shaped chest, and was only publicly 

 produced once a year. Its contents were perfumed with the smoke 

 arising from a censer of odoriferous gums, and washed with water and 

 rice-flour, by the sacred hands of the PangMld himself. On their 

 being exhibited, the superstitious natives, not even daring to look at 

 these miraculous relics, fell prostrate with their foreheads pressed to 

 the earth, exclaiming, Dowlet, dowlet ! 



The properties ascribed to the sword are those generally known by 

 Malays under the term Betuah, which, among other meanings, has that 



