8 NOTES. 



" Kiangi " above the " Upas " under a large ivaringing tree. Sen- 

 tences from the Koran are exquisitely carved on both tombs, but 

 they have no names or dates which I could distinguish. 



VI. 



Sultan Hasan had a palace at Tanjong Chindana and a fort 

 on Pulau Chermin. He was buried in the former place and is hence 

 called Merhoum di Tanjong. He is reported to have reconquered 

 several countries. Soolook is said to have been tributary to him, 

 and it is certain he had intimate relations with that State, a son of 

 his by a. concubine having, it is asserted, become its Raja : it may 

 have been under his order and by his assistance that the attack on 

 the arsenal of Santao in 1617 took place, when all the garrison 

 were killed and property to the value of $1,000,000 destroyed. The 

 tribute formerly paid by Selurong (Manila) to Bruni is stated to 

 have been one gantang of gold in each year. 



Before Sultan Hasan's time, there were only two Wazirs — the 

 Raja Bendahara and Raja Temcnggong : he added the Pangiran or 

 Raja di Gedong and the Pangiran Pemancha ; so that, like the 

 Prophet, he might have four counsellors or " friends." He must 

 have been contemporary with Sultan Iskander Muda of Achin, 

 a.d. 1600-1631. 



The son of Sultan Hasan, who became Sultan of Soolook, is 

 called, in an appendix to the Selesilah, Pangiran Shahbandar Maha- 

 raja Lela, grandson of the Batara Raja of Soolook. The Bornean 

 Rajas dislike his memory and say that he was illegitimate and a 

 bad character and dissatisfied in Bruni because he did not rank 

 with the sons of his father born in wedlock, but a grandson of 

 the Raja of Soolook must have been of considerable rank, and it is 

 probable that the dislike arises from the after-events by which 

 Soolook acquired so large a territory from Borneo after the con- 

 quest of the Merhoum di Pulau. 



Sultan Hassan lived at Tanjong Chindana and had a covered 

 passage from his palace to Chermin island, which was strongly 

 fortified. The Spaniards are said to have sent an embassy either 

 in his time or that of his son Jalil-to-Akbak. 



