200 THE INDEPENDENT NATIVE STATES 



(the then Temenggong of Johor's son, the present Maharaja of 

 Johor) his sympathies and those of the late Temenggong were 

 with the father and Ron. 



In the midst of the struggle, which lasted long and created 

 considerable feeling in the Straits Settlements, Che Wan Indtjt 

 and Ohe Wan Long died, and Che Wan Ahmed became Btmdahara, 

 and continues to hold that office now. 



The boundary question had been for some years a subject of 

 quarrel between Johor and Pahang, but during the reigns of Che 

 Wan Inditt and his son they had come to an Agreement (in 1860 and 

 again in 1862) with Johor on this point. On the accession of Che 

 Wan Ahmed he refused to abide by this Agreement, and the dis- 

 pute being referred to the arbitration of the Governor of the 

 Straits Settlements, was then, in 1867, by him fixed as the Indau 

 river, the right bank to Johor, the left to Pahang, and seawards, 

 from the centre of the river Indau to the southern extreme of 

 Pnlan Uaban, and thence due East along the North parallel of 

 latitude 2° 39' 20", to Pahang the islands lying to the North, to 

 Johor those lying to the southward of that line. 



This settlement did not entirely put an end to all differences, 

 and there is reason to believe that these neighbours regard each 

 other with the same bitterness now that they did formerly, whilst 

 they both profess to think themselves wronged by the settlement 

 of the Indau boundary. 



, Though there has been no open rupture between them, pro- 

 bably as has been said, owing to the close connection of the Maha- 

 raja with the Straits Grovernment, there have been constant alarms 

 and small reprisals on the Indau river, not unfrequently resulting 

 in the death of one or more of the inhabitants of either bank. 



Por the sake of both Johor and Pahang, and to prevent the 

 possibility of their mutual dislike finding vent in a war which would 

 be disastrous not only to them but to numbers of British 

 subjects, and perhaps in a small measure, to the trade of Singapore, 

 it is verv advisable that something should be done to bring 



