RAJA HAJI. DORR 
and as it passed the gate the Dutch fired minute guns. The whole 
expense of the interment was paid by the Governor of Malacca, 
and alms were distributed by the Capitan Malayu under his 
orders.” 
“Raja Haji was buried within the Fort of Malacca behind the 
Company’s garden. Eventually his remains were removed by his 
son and were taken to Riau, where they were buried on the hill of 
Pulau Peningat—that is to say, the hill at the south of the island. 
Ihave been told by old people that before Raja Haji was buried, 
his body was placed in a coffin ready to be transported to Batavia, 
and a ship had been got ready for the purpose. The very night 
before she was to start a jet of light like fire was seen to issue 
from the coffin, and while all the people of Malacca were in con- 
fusion at seeing this occurrence, the ship which was to have 
conveyed the body took fire and blew up with all her crew, not one 
soul being saved.* On this account, said the relaters of this story, 
the removal of the body of Raja Haji to a foreign country was not 
accomplished. He was buried in Malacca and his remains rested 
there until they were removed to Riau. But it was because of 
this story that the Dutch of that generation gave him the name 
of Raja Api,+ by which they used to speak of him.” 
I have, f think, reached, perhaps exceeded, the reasonable limits 
of a paper in this Journal, and will not, therefore, follow the 
Malay chronicler further, though he has much more that is 
interesting to say about the blockade of Kwala Selangor by 
Admiral Van Braam; the flight of Sultan Ibrahim to Pahang; the 
occupation of the fort by the Dutch; the brief and nominal tenure 
of power of the Siak adventurer, Raja Mohamed Ah, and his son, 
Saiyid Ali, in Selangor; the recovery of his fort by Sultan Ibrahim, 
aided by reinforcements from Pahang; the expulsion of the smal] 
Dutch garrison, and the eventual conclusion of a treaty of peace. 
These events, though they had their origin in the quarrel 
between Raja Haji and the Dutch, belong to the history of 
Selangor, and the episode which is described in the Malayan 
ballad preserved by Logan is purely a Malacca one, and appro- 
priately ends with the death of the Bugis Chief. 
_* Apt, fire. 
+ The Malay poem, which is the subject of this paper, is evidently, as 
already pointed out, the work of a Malacca Malay, hostile to the Riau 
invaders. Hence the entire omission by the poet of this superstitious 
explanation of the loss of the Dolphijn. 
