Revolt 
To’ Pa 
and of 
of 
kat 
Haji 
Mustapha. 
Abortive 
Treaty 
Johor 
A.D. 
with 
1877 
22 REMBAU HISTORY, ETC. 
kabau confederacy of four States, and the need for a common 
leader sanctioned the Raja. Remove the danger, let export 
trade over a single water-way pit the interests of one state 
against another and all elements of dissolution are to hand. 
But these divisions brought no ‘ rule”’ to the suzerain. The 
Prang Rawa he fostered in 1815 resulted only in the consolid- 
ation of the waris Rembau by the, introduction of the equal 
dividend to the Eight kampongs:’ and the essay of Tungku 
Radin i in weakening the Undang by the creation of the Raja 
di Raja” ignored the axiom that not the waris but the lem- 
baga are the constitutional enemies of the Undang. 
As the position of Undang Rembau, which in early years 
presented few attractions, became, with the growth and 
development of the state, a prize worth winning, claimants to 
office multiplied. 
In the later years of his Undangship To’ Nganit’s posi- 
tion was challenged unsuccessfully by Pakat, a Mentri of the 
Jawa waris;° and on the death of To’ Akhir in 1871, some 
months elapsed before To’ Haji Sahil proved victorious over 
Haji Mustapha, a warzs of kampong Gadong, whose ciaims 
were strongly supported by Haji Abdul Karim, chief of the 
Tiga Nenek tribe. 
These internal dissensions so strengthened the tribal 
chiefs at the expense of the Undang that in 1877 Dato’ Haji 
Sahil attempted to entrench his position by a foreign alliance: 
and concluded an abortive agreement with Johor acknowledg- 
ing Sultan Abu-Bakar then on a visit to Rembau, as his 
suzerain. His inability to obtain the consent or signatures of 
the Hight tribal chiefs to this contract is fatal to its validity. 
His subsequent policy of promoting raids on Tampin, as 
a sop to Cerberus, failed to satisfy the Lembaga, and as re- 
course to Sri Menanti, shaken by a recent invasion of the 
Dato’ Klana of Sungai Ujong, was impracticable, Haji Sahil 
(1) v. chap. IL, § 5 Sub Giliran Kechil. 
(2) v. chap. II, § 1 Sub Waris Gédang. 
(3) v. Newbold, op: cit. Vol. Ti, p: 133, for an early (1§32) re- 
ference to this man. 
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