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VALENTYN S DESCRIPTION OF MALACCA. 12% 
It was during the reign of this King (9th October, 1547) (*) 
that the Achinese laid siege to Malakka, causing damage to the 
value of more than a million, and only raising the seige on 
account of famine. 
We have found nothing recorded of the lie of this King and 
of his successor, beyond the fact that he reigned 19 years, 1.e., 
from 1540 to 1559, and that he was succeeded by Sultan 
Apput Dsauit Ssan as the fifteenth King of the Malays, the 
third of Djohor, and the ninth Mahomedan Kang. : | 
This prince ruled this people 32 years, died in "1591, and wa 
succeeded by Sultan Anawoppin Ssau Ul. He, the ea 
King of the Malays, the fourth of Djobor, and the tenth 
Mahomedan King, reigned 19 years. 
It seems to me that the first Dutch made their appearane 
either at this place (Malakka) or at Djohor in the twelfth or 
thirteenth year of this reign (7.e., in 1693 or 1504). 
It appears also that he (ALAwoppin Ssan III) was styled 
Yanydipertuan, that he resided at Batoe Sabar, (*) six mules 
higher up the river (7.e., above Johor Lama) and that he had a 
brother, called Radja Bonesog, who lived on friendly terms with 
the Dutch. 
(1) Farta y Souza makes it in October, 1571, and states that 
the Achinese raised the seige on Tristran Vaz DE VEGA com- 
pletely defeating a Malay fleet in the Moar mver; it may bea 
separate occasion, but it looks like the same, and Souza makes no 
mention of the one referred to at the date given in the text, which 
seems to have been so serious that he would hardly have omitted 
to notice it. 
He also mentions in the time of DE Vuea an attack on Malacca 
by a fleet sent by the Queen of Japara consisting of eighty large 
galleons and two huudred and twenty smaller vessels, but the 
besiegers were severely defeated after a seige of three months. 
‘Chis was almost immediately followed by an attack by the Achinese, 
who, however, abandoned the siege in a panic, thinking there were 
some special stratagems being devised against them , when as a 
matter of fact, eel Portuguese were in sore straits, and might 
easily have been overcome. 
(2) “‘Sawar ” said to mean a kind of fishing-weir. (See Malay 
Proverbs, No. 2 of Journ., S.B., R.A.8., p. 145.) 
