66 YAXEffTTN's DESCRIPTION OF MALACCA, 



Pikaram Wira as their second Prince. This one did not govern 

 them for such a long space of time ; he died after a period of 

 15 years. He did nothing of importance, only extending the 

 recently built town and fortifying it a little more, so as to be 

 able to withstand better the plots of the mighty Prince of Mad- 

 japahit, who did not leave him in peace. 



He died a. d. 1223, and was then succeeded by the third King, 

 Siri Bama Wixaram. This was a" young and brave King, who 

 ruled them during 13 years with moderation, and who commenc- 

 ed to be feared all round, but he died very suddenly in 1236, 

 to the great grief of his people, who liked him very much. 



His successor was Siri Maha Raja, who was the fourth King 

 and who also made a very good figure and extended the town 

 greatly. He governed them 12-J years with great care, and was 

 also very much liked by his subjects and feared by his enemies. 

 He died in 1249. 



That same year Siri Iskander Shah was elevated to the crown 

 in his place as the last King of Singapura. He resisted the 

 mighty King of Madjapahit in the first three years of his reign, 

 but was so hard pressed by him at the end of 1252, that he had 

 to abandon Singapura and to migrate higher up to the North side 

 and from thence to the West side of this country, where he laid 

 foundation of a new town in 1253. Including him, five kings had 

 ruled in Singapura during a period of 91 years. He embellished 

 that new place gradually to such an extent that, among the three 

 great and celebrated cities in those quarters of the East, this place 

 was considered afterwards to be the third in rank, or next to 

 Pasi in Sumatra, which stood second next to Madjapahit. He 

 called this new town Malakka, after a certain tree — " Kajoo 

 Malakka," or the Malakka, otherwise called the Mirabolan or ihe 

 pentagonal tree. While it happened that he commenced to build 

 the town * at the very spot where he had taken some rest under 

 such a tree, whilst waiting there till the dogs dislodged the game, 

 one day that he was hunting in those environs, all which particu- 

 lars are told at large in the book Hanioowah. The former Kings 

 of Madjapahit, not yet satisfied with the conquest of Singapura, 

 crossed to the opposite shore of the island of Sumatra and took 

 there the kingdom of Indragiri. Since then, they have al- 

 ways made one of the Javanese princes, related to them, King of 

 that realm, and we shall find afterwards one of the Kings of 



* Mr. Maxwell has drawn attention to the existence of a fiimilar legend 

 amongst the Guzaratis. (Journ. Roy. A. ft. Socy , XIII, N.S.) ' 



