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Malacca, Johor. and other places, and conquered the countries of 

 Soolook and Luzon. He married Lela Men Chanei, the daughter 

 of the Batara, or King, of Soolook, and was succeeded by his son — 



No. 6. — Sultan Abdul Kahae, called Mcrhouin Krainat, from 

 the popular tradition of his phantom having appeared on horseback, 

 after his demise, at the head of the armies of Bruni on one of the 

 two occasions of the city being attacked by the Spaniards in the 

 reign of his son in 1577 and 1580. x\bdul Kahaii had forty-two 

 sons, of whom — 



No. 7. — Sultan Saif-ul-Bejal succeeded him. Two of his 

 brothers were : the Bendahara Saei, whose mother was a 

 Javanese Princess; and the Bendahara Raja Sakavi, whose 

 mother was a Bajau Princess, through whom he inherited 

 great possessions in the Bajau countries as far as Luzon. He 

 was of a very arbitrary and licentious character, but resolute and 

 brave. The Spaniards, at the instigation of two Pangirans — Sri 

 Lela and Sri Eetna — attacked Bruni on two occasions, and took it 

 on the second in 15S0. During the troubles the Sultan with all 

 the Court retired to Suei, a river to the westward of Baram, 

 leaving Eaja Sakaac as Begent to defend Bruni, which he seems 

 to have done gallantly, and finally to have forced the Spaniards to 

 retire. After this he brought his brother the Sultan back to Bruni, 

 and himself conducted an expedition to Belahit, to which river the 

 Pangirans Sri Lela and Sri Eetna had retired ; there they were 

 slain, and the Bendahara returned to Bruni to support the govern- 

 ment of his brother. The troubles of this reign were probably 

 owing to the licentious disposition of Eaja Sakam, who is said to 

 have taken all the most beautiful of the daughters of the Nobles 

 for his wives and concubines, and it was his carrying away the 

 daughter of one of them, for such a purpose, from her father's house 

 on her wedding day, that drove Sri Lela and Sri Eetna, who appear 

 to have been sons of the former Sultan and half-brothers to Saif- 

 ul-Eejal and the Bimdahara, into rebellion. Sultan Saif-ul- 

 Eejal had two daughters, and afterwards two sons by his wife, and 

 other children by concubines. The eldest Princess was an idiot ; the 

 second was the Eaja di Misjid, who settled her property (Bajau) 



