VALENTYN's DESCRIPTION OF MALACCA. 67 



Malakka as a King on that throne, invested with that authority 

 by the King of Madjapahit. 



In the meantime this town ( Malakka) and this renowued people 

 increased under this prince very much in importance and in pow- 

 er, and it was this King who laid the foundation of a permanent 

 kingdom. 



He lived till 1274 a. d., and died after having governed 

 this people during 25 years, having swayed the sceptre three years 

 in Singapura and 22 years as the first King of Malakka, feared 

 by his neighbours, and beloved by his subjects. Sultan Magat 

 succeeded him that same year as the second Malay King at 

 Malakka. 



This prince died after a short reign of two years, and on his 

 death the Malays had been governed 115 years and 6 months by 

 Heathen Kings. 



He was succeeded in 1276 by Sultan Mohammed Shah, the seventh 

 King of the Malays, and the third of Malakka, who was the first 

 Mohammedan Prince of Malakka; he became famous, while he 

 strongly propagated this new religion and greatly enlarged his 

 empire during the 57 years that he governed this kingdom. 



It seems that it was he who transferred the name of Maiajoo to 

 the adjacent islands of Lingga and Bintam or Bintang, South 

 of the Promontory of the Malay Coast, and that he made that 

 name famous among the natives of Djohor, Patani, Keidah ( other- 

 wise called Quedah), Peirah and of other places even on the 

 opposite coast of Sumatra and Gampar ( 1 ) and Haru, and that the 

 inhabitants of those quarters, feared him so much, that appa- 

 rently all their countries were then already subjected to him. 



Not satisfied with those conquests, he married in the last years 

 of his reign, the Princess of Arracan, heiress of that King, thus 

 subjecting that kingdom by inheritance, installing the Prince, whom 

 he appointed there and who had been selected among the Malays 

 Mangkubnmi, i.e.. Chancellor of the Kingdom of Malakka. 



He died a. d. 1333, after having reached a very advanced age, 

 leaving to his son Sultan Aeoo Shahid (the eighth King of the 

 Malays, the fourth of Malakka, and the second Mohammedan King) 

 a peaceable kingdom. But this Prince did not possess it a very 

 long time, for he was stabbed by the King of Arracan in 

 1334, after a reign of but one year and five months, leaving the 

 kingdom in the same condition as his father had left it to him. 

 He was succeeded that same year by Sultan Modaeab Shah (as 



(i) Kampar, see note (4) page 64. 



