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and the king of this country gave a feast , where all his relatives were pres- 

 ent. The son of the king of Polo (Bruni) was the son in law of the king 

 of Pahang; he offered a cup of wine to the viceroy, who then saw that he 

 had on his fmger a large pearl of great beauty , and wanting to have it , he 

 offered a very high price. The prince would not part with it, on which 

 the viceroy became angry , went home and came back with soldiers to attack 

 the country. The people of Pahang were taken unprepared; they dispersed 

 without fighting and the king fled to the gold-mountains , along with the 

 Prince of Bruni. The king of Pu-ni (western coast of Borneo) was the elder 

 brother of the king's wife; when he heard of all this, he came with his 

 people to assist those of Pahang and then the Viceroy of Djohore was com- 

 pelled to retire, after havmg burnt and plundered very much. 



At that time the spirits in the country wailed for three days and 

 half of the people had been killed; the king of Puni took his sister home 

 with him and the king of Pahang foliowed him also, ordering his eldest son 

 to govern the country. 



Some time afterwards the king resumed the government, but his 

 second son, who was of a bad disposition, poisoned his father, killed his 

 brother and ascended the throne himself. 



The Tung Hsi Yang K'au (1618) gives about the same account, with the fol- 

 lowing addition : 



This king, who killed his father and his brother, is reigning still 

 now. He is in the habit of buying from the Mau-su (*) pirates the men 

 they have caught, and all the countries thereabout suffer severely from this. 

 These Mau-su pirates are natives belonging to Bruni (Polo); they roarn over 

 tue sea for the purpose of stealing men, whom they bring to Pahang and 

 sell as slaves ( 2 ) there. When one of them does not obey his master, he is 

 killed and used for the sacrifices. The price of a slave is about three pieces 

 of gold. 



When a ship arrivés there , it has to send fixed presents to the king. 

 The latter has erected a number of shops and the merchants can occupy in 



(') The name used for slaves here is f=l i§» 7&j£ or slaves of K'un-lun, the latter being 



ainongst other the Chinese name for Pulu Condore. We do not know how to explain this name, 

 which is herc, as in many other places, used for slaves in general, without any refercnce to the land 

 hey coma from. Cjmjjare p. 63 N^te 2 and Brettscheider's A rabs. p. 14. 



