96 THE HISTORY OF PERAK FROM NATIVE SOURCES. 
the shoulder of Sri Nara Diraja, so that his forehead touched that 
of the latter, and Sultan Maumup Suan said: ‘In my belief my 
sickness is unto death, therefore I give the Sultan Muda into the 
charge of ye all, for he is yet a boy.’ Then the Bandahara and all 
the Chiefs said: ‘'Tuanku, may God avert from your Highness all 
evil, nevertheless, if the grass should wither in the court-yard of 
your Highness, we will by no means do ought in breach of your 
commands,’ and the King was greatly comforted by the assurance 
of the Bandahara and the Chiefs. 
“And after a few days Sultan Maumup Suau died, and his body 
was buried by the people with all the honours customary in bury- 
ing Rajas when they are dead. It was this Sultan who was called 
after his death Marhum Kampar, and the time that he had reigned 
in Malacca was thirty years, and at the end of that time Malacca 
was conquered by Mor(') and he fled to Pahang for a year, and 
thence to Bentan, where he spent twelve years, and thence to Kam- 
par, where he remained for five years. Thus the whole time that 
he was Raja was forty-eight years. (7) As soon as Marhum Kampar 
was dead the Sultan Muda was made Raja under the title of Sultan 
Aua-Eppin Ayat Suan. Raja Mozarar was driven out by the 
Bandahara and all the Chiefs, and he said: ‘Why am I driven 
out? Am I going to wrest the sovereignty from Inche Tan (*) by 
force ?’? All the Chiefs said: ‘Away with Raja Mozarar Suan from 
this country.’ Then said Raja Mozarar Suan: ‘ Wait a while, for 
my rice is still on the fire and is not yet cooked.’ But the Chiefs 
said: ‘Of what use is it to wait longer ? Go down now without de- 
(*) y9¢ Gp ald! O Se we The capture of Malacca by the Portu- 
guese under ALBUQUERQUE is of course the event alluded to. The 
Sajarah Malayw mentions a Portuguese “Captain Mor.” LrrpEn’s 
Malay Annals, p. 326. I am indebted to Mr. Noronua for the 
information that ‘‘Capitao-mér” (literally Captain-in-Chief) was 
an ancient rank in the Portuguese Navy corresponding more or 
less nearly with “ Admiral of the Fleet.” . 
(2) See Journal of the Indian Archipelago, Vol. IX., p. 68. 
(?) This is an allusion to Tan Farra, the favourite wife of Sul- 
tan Maumup Suau, in favour of whose son AtA-Eppin (according 
to this account) the real heir Mozarar Suan was disinherited. — 
