MALAY LAW IN NEGRI SEMBILAN. 301 
The inhabitants of the State of Johol, which includes Ulu 
Muar, Terachi and Jempol, are said to have reached this coun- 
try by ascending the Muar River. The origin of the word 
Muar is said to be from the Malay word ‘‘ Mua,” for which the 
best translation may be “satiated.” Thus “ Suda mua mudek 
sunget tni’’-—“I am utterly satiated (by fatigue) in ascend- 
ing this river.’ Thus Muar became the name given to the 
district from the Segamat boundary to Kwala Jelei in the State 
of Johol. The settlers, however, appear to have recovered their 
strength and colonised again ‘Ulu Muar,” almost the most 
populous State, at present, of the Negri Sembilan. From this 
again we have Kwala Muar, the name given to the small terri- 
tory on the Muar River from the Segamat boundary to the 
mouth of the river. Segamat was ruled by the Sultans of 
Johor, through the Temenggong of Segamat, and Kwala Muar 
was never a place of any importance except as the mouth of a 
large river and the residence latterly of Sultan ALI of Johor. 
Ulu Klang, one of the four original States of the Negri Sembi- 
lan, appears to have been principally so in origin as but very 
fw Menangkabau settlers went there, and it was more from 
the aboriginal point of view that it was considered one of the 
Negri Sembilan, though in connection with the ancient con- 
stitution there is no doubt that it formed a part. This I 
described more or less in my original paper, I also sketched 
the arrival of emigrants from Sumatra, and later the demand 
by these thriving colonists from Menangkabau for a Raja from 
that Sultanate to be suzerain and constitutional Sultan of the 
Negri Sembilan, z.e., for a number of States which had become 
so populous that the necessity for a Raja and high court of 
appeal had become felt. 
From what is here written and from my original paper, the 
way is paved to giving intelligibly a number of political cases 
and cases of custom which may go further to give a general 
insight into custom from origin. Much of what occurs here in 
connection with Malay laws is frequently found in other Malay 
districts of the interior, such as Kinta, Ulu Selangor and Ulu 
Pahang, where the Malay custom is closely allied w ith aboriginal 
customs and ideas. 
