HISTORY OF THE SULTANS OF BBUNI. 17 



The Batara of Soolook went up to Brum and met the Sultan 

 Muaddin, and having feasted and drank, the Sultan * asked 

 the Batara .for his assistance to destroy his enemies at the 

 island, promising that if the island should be conquered, the land 

 from the North as for westward as Kimani should belong to Soo- 

 look. The Batara of Soolook accepted this with delight, and the peo- 

 ple of Brum all got ready to attack the island, and posted their 

 forces on Bukit Chindana and Didaliton, and the Soolooks took 

 possession of the island of Kayang Arang, and carried on the war. 

 After a time the people of the island became straightened, for the 

 guns fired down upon them from the top of the hills, and the Eaja 

 of the island, perceiving that his chances became less, destroyed all 

 the insignia of royalty, as the crown from Johor and the hamanah 

 from China, and rammed them into a cannon, which he fired out to 

 sea, and thus it was that the crown from .Tohor was lost. 



Pangiran Kawat assaulted the palace, and killed the people 

 and women of the Eaja, together with the Eaja himself, who had 

 run into the mosque ; the people of Brum" and of Soolook rushed on 

 the island and finding the Eaja in the mosque, garotted him there, f 



* The tradition in Soolook is that both sides asked for the assistance of the 

 Soolook fleet, and that the Commander sided with the Bruni Sultan because he 

 offered the countries which, belonging to his enemies, lav near to Soolook. The\ 

 say the Soolooks did all the fighting, the Bruni people only looking on. The pre- 

 sent Yang di Pertuan and the Selesilah of the Pangiran Kasuma all deny the 

 assistance of the Soolooks, or that any agreement "was made with them for the sur- 

 render of territory, saying they did not arrive till the island was taken, and that 

 they stole the royal guns Si Membio'g and Boja Andei, which the Soolooks say 

 were giyen to them in token of the agreement.' These guns were subsequently 

 taken by the Spaniards from Soolook toManila. The Soolooks also took with t hem 

 as prisoner the Orang Kava Malik, who, although not noble, was a person of 

 great consideration on the side of the island. The present Yang di Pertuan 

 would never let me see the copy of the Selesilah, which he is known to possess, 

 and Pangiran Kasuma when he heard I had obtained the authentic copy from 

 which the text is taken, said that it contained the true version, that at present 

 adopted having been inyented to conceal the shame of the Brunians, 



Mr. Jesse, who was Resident in Bruni for the East India Company in 17/4, 

 and Sir Stamford Raffles, who was familiar with the history ol the Malay 

 States, (seep. 268, Vol.1., third para.) seem to have considered the cession to the 

 Soolooks as unquestioned by the Brunians at the time the same countries were 

 made over to the English by these latter people. 



t One account says the Eaja was killed with a kris at his own request, in- 

 stead of being garotted as intended. The death of the usurper took place twelve 

 years after that of his victim Merhoum Tumb.ang di Rumput. 



