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Mahomed, and to have married the daughter of the Chinese Chief, 

 whom he brought from China Batangan, who, with all his people, 

 is said to have settled in Bruni, and to have had by her a daughter, 

 who was married to the Arab Sheriff who became the third Sultan. 

 This seems to be confirmed by the narrative on the historical stone 

 carved by order of the Sultan Mahomed Taj-uddin. 



IV. 



" Kota Batu." — There are two places called thus, one in the 

 site of the ancient palace at the little river Bruni below the anci- 

 ent tombs of the former Sultans, the other is the artificial bar 

 formed in the river between the islands " Kaya Orang " * and 

 " Pulau Chermin " which the Pangiran Kasttma's narrative gives 

 as the one referred to in the text, saying that forty junks filled 

 with stones were sunk to form it. As the former was in existence 

 and mounted with fifty-six brass and six iron cannon in 1521, when 

 Pigafetta visited the place, it was probably built at the same 

 time. In the stone tablet the erection of the Kota Batu is 

 ascribed to the Arab Sultan Berkat, the third of the Kings, 

 who married the daughter of Sultan Akhmed ; he probably, with 

 the assistance of his Chinese subjects, finished one or both of 

 these structures. 



y. 



Sultan Bulkeiah was familiarly known as Nakoda Eagam : he 

 is described in Bornean traditions as a great navigator and warrior, 

 having voyaged to Java and to Malacca and conquered the East 

 Coast of Borneo, Luzon and Soolook. His tomb, of very exquisite 

 workmanship in very hard basaltic stone, still remains on the hill 

 above the site of the ancient town ; it was probably imported from 

 xlchin or Java. Two stones only remained in 1873 of the similar 

 tomb of Lela Men Chanet, the wife of this Sultan, who was a 

 daughter of the Batara of Soolook. I saw two other stones which 

 had formed part of this lady's tomb in the burial ground at the 



* "Kaya Orang," There are veins of coal on this island, and the remains of 

 regular fortifications : it is opposite Pulau Chevmin, arirl with it commands the 

 entrance of the Bruni river. 



