in STORY Or THE SULTAITS OF ERUNI. 11 



one who became Sultan Shah Bkuni, and the other Sultan Hasau, 

 who succeeded His Majesty in the Kingdom. 



Sultan Shah Bru>"i, having been for some time on the throne, 

 died * leaving no children, and was succeeded by his brother Sultan 

 Hasa^, who is known as the Merhoum di Tanjong. His reign was 

 of a very despotic character, and he did whatever he pleased in 

 Brum. 



As regards the eldest sister of this Sultan, who was idiotic, her 

 father gave her for inheritance the Bajaus of Marudu and of 

 Bangui and the Bisayas of Mempalau, of Lawas and of Bakau. 

 There was a Pangiran Mahomed Paxjang f of Kampong Pandei 

 Ka wat, who was rich : he had three hundred dependants (hamha) , and 

 became in love with the idiot Kaja. and presented her with his three 

 hundred people as a marriage gift. After this he received the title 

 of Pangiran Bendahara Mahomed, and he was the father of the 

 Pangiran Bendahara Kahar, of Bendahara Hamid, and of Benda- 

 hara Abdul, Merhoum di Pulau. Bendahara Abdul was the Ben- 

 dahara of the Merhoum Tumbang di Buinput, that is to say, Sultan 

 Mahomet Ali, and he it was he who seized the throne of the King- 

 dom of Brum', and he reigned under the name of the Sultan Abdul 

 Mubiv. 



The original cause of the mrssaere which led to this was that 

 a son t of the Sultan had killed a son of the Bendahara, and when 



* One account says the Sultan abdicated in favour of his brother. 



f Pangiran KasYma has a note here to the effect that in former times the 

 sons of Sultans were called Rajas, the other nobles being titled Pangirans. Raja 

 Muda HrsiN, who was murdered in 1847 (?), was the last who was called Raja. 

 There is some mistake in the text in reference to the wife of this Pangiran, 

 Pandei Kawat, who married Raja Tuah, a daughter of Sultan Hasax, and who 

 seems to have inherited the property of the ladies her aunts, especially that of 

 Raja Misjid. He was, after his marriage, made Pangiran Bendahara Mahomed, 

 and was the father of the children mentioned in the text. 



X This Prince, after escaping from the vengeance of the Bendahara by the 

 back of the palace and to sea in a sampan, appears to have been, during the life of 

 his father, the Pangiran di Gedong. He was named Oatab, and is reported to 

 have been insolent and unpopular, and the insurrection of the Bendahara, which 

 was originally in! ended only against him, was supported by the chief nobility, 

 his ovrn house seems to have been attacked and burnt, from which he fled to 

 his father's followed by the Bendahara. 



