10 HISTORY OF THE SULTANS OF BBTTNI. 



treacherous to the Sultan, his daughter, who had just been married 

 and was sitting by the side of her husband, having been seized and 

 carried off by Eaja Sakam for a concubine ; therefore, when the 

 Caatilians made war, the Pangiran Sri Lela went over to them, and 

 the country was conquered, * all the Eaja's Mentris and Hulebalangs 

 fled, f taking the Sultan with them, except the Bendahara Sakam, 

 who remained with one thousand people, men whom he had pur- 

 chased. These made a fort at Pulau Ambok, and fought the Casti- 

 lians, so that they fled away to Lesong, and then Bendahara Sakam 

 brought back the Sultan to Bruni, and set him on his throne. 



After this Eaja Sakam sailed to Belahit in search of the Pan- 

 giran Sri Lela and his brother Sri Eetna, and when he had slain 

 them all he returned to Bruni and strengthened the throne of his 

 brother, the Sultan Saif-ul-Eejal. All his brothers became Chu- 

 treias of the Bendahara ; they were forty in number. If the Sultan 

 went on a pleasure party to Labuan or Muara, they each wore a 

 cliemdra himhha of blue and gold, to distinguish them as brothers of 

 the Yang di Pertuan. 



About this time the wife of the Sultan became pregnant, 

 and the Sultan expecting a male child, the drums were beaten, 

 but it proved to be a female, and an idiot having no understand- 

 ing, but her appearance was very beautiful. After this His Ma- 

 jesty had two other daughters, % and subsequently two sons, the 



* The Spaniards came back in 1580 to re-place Sri Lela on the throne, and 

 it was probably on this occasion that the Eaja Sakam distinguished himself. The 

 Spanish history says that the Brunians were assisted by a Portuguese Captain, 

 probably the Pangiran Kestani, who will be mentioned further on. The Por- 

 tuguese had carried on regular intercourse with Bruni since 1530, and they con- 

 tinued this to the capture of Malacca by the Dutch in 1691, and afterwards from 

 Macao. When the present Sultan was a young man, he remembers Portuguese 

 merchants in Bruni ; this would be about the end of the last century. 



f ^ai"f-ul-B.ejal and his people went to live at Sungei Budu in the Suei 

 river, which is near Bintala. He fell sick here, but is said to have recovered and 

 returned to Brum. He is called Merhoum di Budu, In Bruni he lived at 

 the Mazagong Istana in the Sungei Kadeian, where also he died. Eaja Sakam 

 was a younger brother of Saif-ttl-Rejal. 



J 'These ladies were the Eaja di Misjid, and the Raja of Balikbaxdong, 

 and one of these lad i. j s, daughters of Saie-ul-Eejal, settled her property, that 

 is, the Bajaus of Marudu and Bangui, and the Bisaya3 of Mempalau, Lawas, 

 and Bakau, on Eaja Tuah, the daughter of Merhoum di Tanjong, who was the 

 mother of Merhoum di Pulau. 



