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the warlike tendencies of the Selangor Eajas, their surplus energy- 

 was directed, and with considerable success, to a system of piracies 

 on the coast and in the neighbourhood of Selangor. 



A more particular struggle had, however, been going on in 

 Selangor, with more or less vigour since 1867, in which year, Tunku 

 Dia Udin, a brother of the Sultan of Kedah, and, like all of that 

 family, a man of more than ordinarily enlightened views, went to 

 Selangor, married a daughter of the Sultan of that country, and 

 was appointed by him to be his Viceroy. 



Under the general name of Selangor are included five large 

 districts, each on a considerable river of its own, named respectively 

 Bernam, Selangor, Klang, Langat, and Lukut.* Bernam being the 

 most northerly and the others joining on in succession. 



The Sultan, who by the way is supreme, and, unlike the custom 

 in Perak, has no very high officers under him, was then and is now 

 residing at Langat, and had three grown up sons — Eajas Musah, 

 Kahar and Yakub. Of these sons Raja Musah, the eldest, was 

 by his father's consent then (in 1867) living at Selangor in com- 

 plete control of that river. 



A Eaja Itam held Bernam, Raja But, Lukut, and Eaja Mahdi, 

 a grandson of the late Snltan, having driven out Eaja Dolah, 

 formerly in Klang, was holding that place and enjoying its reve- 

 nues as his own. 



About this time Eaja Dolah died in Malacca, to which place 

 he had retired to organize an expedition against Mahdi to recover 

 Klang, and at his death he enjoined his sons to carry out this 

 expedition. 



This was done, and Tunku Dia Udin, finding Eaja Dolah's 

 sons at the mouth of the Klang river and already engaged in a 

 struggle with Mahdi, in his capacity of Viceroy to the Sultan, 

 ordered both parties to desist and stated that he would settle their 



* Lukut has latelv, by a mutual rectification of boundaries, passed to Sungei 

 LTjong. (1880.) 



