26 MAHOMEDAN SOVEREIGNS OF BRUNI. 



on Kaja Tuah, tlie daughter of her youngest brother, Sultan Ha- 

 san ; these bequests became the nucleus of the wealth of her 

 family— -the Pulau Kajas. The eldest sou of Saif-Ul-Bejal was— 



No. 8. — Sultan Shah Bruni, who succeeded his father, but, 

 having no children, and after a reign of some years, having no hope 

 of lineal succession, abdicated in favour of his brother, Sultan 

 Hasais t . During this and the following reigns many very large 

 brass cannon were cast in Bruni. A son of the Sultan Saif-ul- 

 Eejal by a concubine, who was made Pangiran Temenggong 

 Mahomed by his brother Sultan Hasan, was the chief superin- 

 tendent of the foundries. 



No. 9. — Sultan Hasan, brother of Shah Bruni. He is des- 

 cribed in the Bornean traditions as the most arbitrary, powerful 

 and magnificent of the sovereigns of Borneo. He is called the Mer- 

 hoLim di Tanjong, from his palace and his tomb both having been 

 at Tanjong Cheindana, the point of land behind Pulau Chermin, at 

 the entrance of the Borneo rive] 1 . He is said to have consolidated 

 the provinces of the kingdom, and to have completed the conquest 

 of such as were not previously thoroughly subdued. He fortified 

 Pulau Chermin, and had a bridge constructed by which he could 

 pass from his palace to the fort ; elephants were in use for State 

 purposes, and the etiquette of the Court was modelled on that of 

 the Sultan of Achin, Mahkota Alam. He married four Princesses, 

 and had many concubines, and his palace was full of female ser- 

 vants. The eldest of his brothers by a concubine he made the 

 Pangiran Temenggong Mahomed ; the second brother was the 

 Pangiran di Gedong Bruni, notorious for the cruelties he inflicted 

 as punishments ; the third brother of the Sultan by a concubine 

 was the Pangiran Shahbandar Abdullah: all of them left children. 



The Sultan Hasan was the first sovereign who established 

 four great Officers of State, the number having been formerly 

 confined to two — the Bendahara and the Temenggong ; to these he 

 added the di Gedong and the Pemansha. 



The only legitimate sons of Sultan Hasan, whom I can trace, 

 arc the Sultan Abdul JALiL-uL-A.tiBAE and the Sultan Mahomet 



