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in his hall of audience, (balaz), or conclude any agreement 
binding on the state. 
The formation of this league guaranteed to the Four 
chiefs their respective spheres of influence in the Légong and 
Gadong valleys where they originally settled. It is under 
this contract that the Dato’ Merbangsa, lembaga of the Paya 
Kumboh tribe, counts as his tribes-people the Seri Melenggang 
colonists under Maharaja Sutan, and the few Agam families, 
under Maharaja Jakanda, who settled later at Kampong 
Tanjong and Ampang Berukir in the Légong valley. 
Similarly the Tiga Batu Tribesmen who settled at the 
Kampong known later by the name of their tribe, within the 
sphere (lengkongan) of the Dato’ Bangsa Balang (lembaga of 
the Tiga Nenek tribe) were obliged to acknowledge the supre- 
macy of To’ Bangsa Balang, to whom their own chief Lela 
Raja became subservient. 
Il. The league of the Five Tribes. The league of the 
Five is a political organisation formed in the time of Dato’ 
Kosil (A.D. 1795-1820) between the chiefs of the five tribes of 
Béduanda, Tanah Datar, Batu Hampar Pétani, Anak Acheh, 
and Anak Malaka, domiciled in the Baroh district. 
The immediate object of the league was the reinforce- 
ment of an expedition despatched by the Dato’ Perba—the 
Béduanda chief—to Naning to avenge an insult inflicted by 
the Mungkal Naning on a Béduanda tribeswoman. 
On the successful issue cf the raid, the chiefs of the five 
tribes, who had no part in the existing league of the Four, 
bound themselves by oaths at Batu Puteh, Chengkau, to ex- 
ercise their constitutional functions as one body, and to tender 
mutual aid “ so long as cranes are white or crows black.” 
In the Darat District of Rembau the territorial influence 
obtained by the earliest settlers is seen in the formation of 
three leagues. 
i The league of the Four (émpat sa-bélah darat). 
ii The league of the Five upstream (Bérlima ka-hulu). 
ili The league of the Nine downstream (Bérsémbilan ka-hilir), 
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