40 OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF THE DINDINGS. 



his account of Pangkor, Crawfurd specially notices the "beau- 

 tiful and safe harbour running North and South, and seem- 

 ingly sheltered from every wind." 



We now come to the British occupation of Pangkor. In 

 1826 that island, together with the Sembilan Islands, was 1326. 

 ceded to the British by Perak, with a view to the suppression 

 of piracy ; but it does not appear that any use was made of 

 the concession either at the time or for some years after. 



In 1867, a Kedah Malay named Haji MAHOMED Akib con- jgg- 

 ceived the idea of settling at Pangkor, and applied to 

 the Lieut. -Governor of Penang (Col. Man) for permission to 

 do so. After some consultation, the authorities being at first 

 doubtful whether it was British territory, he was allowed to 

 settle; a concession of 100 orlongs of land was given to him; 

 and in 1870 he was appointed Penghulu of Pangkor by J870. 

 Colonel (now Sir Archibald) Anson. He induced a few 

 other people to join him, but most of them went away again, 

 as Pangkor and Pulau Sembilan were in those days the 

 favourite haunts of pirates, and frequent descents were made 

 by them on the settlers, so that for the first few years Haji 

 MAHOMED Akib lived almost alone. How he arranged mat- 

 ters with the pirates I do not know, and I never succeeded in 

 getting a satisfactory answer to this question from him; but 

 they do not seem to have visited him as they did other peo- 

 ple. I may add, however, that when the Government undertook 

 the suppression of piracy in these waters in earnest, Haji 

 Mahomed Akib rendered valuable assistance on several oc- 

 casions. 



In January, 1874, the Pangkor Treaty was signed, by which, 1874. 

 in addition to Pangkor, a strip of territory on the mainland 

 containing an area of about 200 square miles was ceded to 

 the British Government, and the whole territory was called 

 the Dindings. It was made a dependency of the Settlement 

 of Penang, but it was arranged, as a matter of convenience, 

 that it should de administered by the Resident of Perak, the 

 Revenue and Expenditure being, of course, included in the 

 Budget of the Colony. 



After the Pangkor Treaty, some Police were placed on the 



