4.2 THE NEGRI SEMBILAN. 
MELEWAR to return tothe Négri Sémbilan and be proclaimed 
Sultan of those States. The Rajas of Ménangkabau gave Raja 
MELEWAR a following of 40 persons to take him to Siak ; 
from Siak the Raja of Siak sent 40 persons to convey him 
to Malacca; in Malacca 40 persons conveyed him to Naning ; 
and then again 40 persons conveyed him to Rémbau. It 
would appear that the installation took place at Péndjis in 
Rémbau, and after the téba/, the Yam Tuan proceeded to 
the Istana at Sri Méndnti, in the State of Ulu Muar. 
The terms given to the States of Johél, Sungei Ujong, Rém- 
bau, and Ulu Muar in connection with the elec- 
Technical tion of the Yam Tuan are :—Rémbau, Tanah 
namesofStates. Kardjaan* (Péndjist); Sungei UNens Balei Mé- 
lintang ;* Johdl, Balei Bértengkat ;* and Ulu 
Muar, Tanah Méngdandong.* Thus the first . Sultan of Négri 
Sémbilan was Yam Tuan Bésdr Raja MELEWAR. 
The Yam Tuan Mudaship of Rémbau was of later creation, 
and so was the Yam-Tuan-Mudaship of Jélébu. 
aPihe Wage In Rémbau the tribe of Sasez or Wares fade 
Tuan Muda. been added to by another tribe called Lédudnda 
Fawa. Rémbau origin has been thoroughly 
explained by Mr. DUDLEY HERVEy in his valuable pamphlet 
on that State. In Jélébu, the Dato’ of Jélébu had originally 
Raja powers vested in him; he later applied to the Yam Tuan 
of Sri Méndnti for a separate Yam Tuan, and this was granted. 
Jélébu is a considerable distance from the Istana of Sri 
Méndnti, and this, together with the probability that he was 
unable to hold his own with the Chiefs, was the cause. The 
Yam Tuan of Sri Méndnti retained suzerain rights as in 
* For an explanation of these names see Journal S.B., R.A.S., No. 13, for 
June 1884, paragraph 240. 
+ Or ‘Péndjih,’ the Rémbau river as far as its junction with the ‘ Pénar’ 
at ‘Sempang,’ from which point it is called the ‘Linggi,’ but in a map in 
GODINKO DE GrepiA’s Account of Malacca (A.D. 1613) the Linggi at the 
mouth is called ‘Rio Panagim,’ which confirms the tradition that the name 
Linggi’ (a certain part of a boat or prahu) is of compa ae ca ee 
