A JOURNEY ON FOOT TO THE PATANI FRONTIER. 45 
Haji Dat, the Kazi of an adjoining village, and Penghulu Pau 
Sirat, the father of the youth who had warned Maharaja Lena 
two days before. In Patani a man often drops his name as soon 
as he becomes a father, and is thenceforth known as the father of 
such-a-one, son or daughter as the case may be. Tuan Prang’s 
brother-in-law and envoy was not a prepossessing person. He was 
spare and thin, had a restless, suspicious look, and was very guard- 
ed and cautious in his remarks. J explained to him that I had 
ascertained that certain enemies of the British Government had 
been received in Patani territory, in spite of the strict orders of 
the Siamese Government to the contrary, and that I believed them 
to be still in the neighbourhood. Under these circumstances, it 
was expected that he and other influential men in Reman would 
lose no time in tracking the fugitives and giving me full informa- 
tion of their movements, besides actively co-operating, if necessary, 
in effecting their capture. Wan Monern was not at all prepared 
to accept this programme, and with much shrewdness commenced 
by disputing my premises. Neither he nor Tuan Prang, he 
declared, had any knowledge that Maharaja Leta or other fugitives 
had been received in Patani territory, and he appealed to the Pen- 
ehulus who were present for confirmation of this assertion of his 
absolute ignorance on the subject. Of course the Penghulus were 
equally ignorant and had no information whatever on the subject 
of political offenders. I hinted that I had excellent reason to 
believe that Maharaja Lexa had been supphed with rice from the 
_ very village in which we were then sitting, and that he had also 
been received at Kernei. Wan Monsin shuffled uneasily when 
any attempt was made to persuade him to adopt any definite line. 
He would willingly communicate all my wishes to the Raja of 
Reman, but until an answer came from Kota Bahru he could not 
promise to do anything. He had no men to follow up the fugitives, 
he did not know where they were, and he had no arms. He could 
give orders that no more rice or other provisions should be sold 
to them by Patani ryots, but that was all that could be got out of 
him. The only pomt on which he was really candid was in his 
reply to a question of mine whether I could go on to Kota Bahru 
and see the Raja of Reman. He very emphatically assured me 
