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the legend, was founded by Maeah Siltt (the younger of two 

 "brothers residing at Pasangan, about half way between Teluk 

 Samawi and Samalangan, who afterwards quarrelled, on which the 

 younger fled to the forest of Jaran and acquired the position of a 

 Chief among the people there). The account of the circumstances 

 ]eading to the foundation of the city are obviously mythical. 



But from two or three passages the situation may be conjec- 

 tured. In the account of the marriage of Sultan Malek al Saleh 

 (Maeah Siltt) it states that he went out as far as Jambu Ayer 

 (which lies between Tanjong Perlak and Kerti) to meet the Princess 

 of Perlak. Again Perlak was conquered by enemies, and the in- 

 habitants took refuge in Sainudra, which shews those States to have 

 been contiguous to each other. Malek al Saleh now founded 

 Pasei ; having previously crossed the river on a hunting expedition, 

 he came upon an elevated piece of ground near the river, which he 

 selected as the site for the new city. So that clearly the two cities 

 of Samudra and Pasei were only a short distance from each other. 

 In a later account of the quarrel between the brothers Sultan Malek 

 al Mansue of Samudra and Sultan Malek al Zaher of Pasei. 

 it states that the former left Samudra and went out to the mouth 

 of the river, shewing that it was a city up a river, and it must be 

 inferred from the passages already referred to that the river on which 

 Samudra stood, lay between Samudra and Pasei, and was the onty 

 stream of any consequence that separated them. The clear infer- 

 ence then on the whole is that Samudra was a city a little way up 

 a river lying somewhere between Pasei and Tanjong Perlak (Dia- 

 mond Point); whether this inference from native sources is con- 

 firmed by the discovery which Mr. G-roeneveldt mentions of the 

 actual site, it is not easy to say ; for Mr. Geoeneveldt's account of 

 this discovery is brief,and decidedly meagre geographically speaking . 

 he says : " one of our functionaries visited Pasei last year and found 

 " there a village called Samudra, on the left bank of the river, about 

 " three miles from the sea." Now though the Sejara Malay u has 

 a great deal of fable interwoven with historical details, we can 

 hardly doubt the fact of there being originally two distinct cities of 

 Samidra and Pasei, however mythical the tale of their foundation, 

 and Pasei and Samudra are mentioned interchangeably when speak- 

 ing of the same circumstances, as though they were the same. Ac- 

 cording to the native account two brothers (already named) rule res- 

 pectively over the two cities, but the account does not go very far. 



