REMBAU HISTORY, ETC. 13 
of Johor and Pahang, and all the districts subordinate thereto.’ 
The Negri Sembilan as constituted under Johor was a 
confederacy of all the inland states of Sakai origin in the Pen- 
insula South of Kemaman ard the Bernam river accessible to 
one: another but removed by distance from the immediate 
control of the Johor Raja. 
In 1540 A.D., Ulu Pahang must necessarily mean that tract 
watered by the Pahang river at the utmost point on the river 
of Johor influence. The up-stream limit of the Pahang river 
to-day is situated at Kuala Tembéling. It was probably so in 
the 16th century. At Kuala Tembéling, the Pahang river ceases 
to exist and becomes on the left the Tembéling, and on the right 
the Jélai. This was probably the case also in the 16th cen- 
tury. The tract immediately below Kuala Tembéling, which 
may be taken to be the Ulu Pahang of the 16th century, is 
easily accessible from the States of Johol, of Jelebu and from 
Ulu Segamat. To this district of Ulu Pahang, Jélai is the 
immediate up-stream neighbour on the broad Pahang waters. 
It is clear from his account. of the Journey of Mr. Grey 
to Ulu Pahang in 1827 A.D” that Ulu Pahang did not mean 
to Newbold, the area at present included in the administrative 
district of Ulu Pahang. The route taken by Mr. Grey through 
Rembau and Jempol down the Séréting and Béra rivers to their 
junction with the Pahang river, lay wholly outside the modern 
Ulu Pahang, but would traverse the 16th century state of 
Ulu Pahang. The remark with which Newbold introduces 
his description of Johol,’ “Johol is bounded on the North by 
Ulu Pahang,” is only true of Ulu Pahang in the suggested 
16th century definition of that term. 
The inclusion of Klang in the confederacy of the Negri 
Sembilan under Johor has never been questioned; but the 
extent of the 16th century. state of Klang is conjectural. 
(1) v. Newbold. op. cit. Vol. II, p. 48. 
(2) v. Newbold op. cit. Vol. II, pp, 135-6. 
(3) v. Newbold op: cit. Vol. TI, p. 138. 
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