186 NOTES ON TWO PEEAK MANUSCRIPT. 



Returning to the first Raja of Perak, the chronicler, for- 

 getting that he has just stated that Muzafar Shah went to 

 Perak from Klang, makes Johor his starting point after all. 

 "He begot a son named Raja Mansur, who remained at 

 " Johor when his father went to Perak, and who married a 

 " sister of Murhom Bukit (wife of Raja Jalil of Johor). Raja 

 " Muzafar Shah, when he became Raja of Perak, establish- 

 " ed his capital at Tanah Abang, and after his death was 

 " known as " Murhom Tanah Abang." Then Sultan Ala-eddin 

 " sent Raja Mansur and his wife to Perak, and they reigned 

 " there and established their capital at Kota Lama." 



It is clear I think' that the Perak historian was not satis- 

 fied with a Johor Bendahara as the progenitor of a line of 

 kings and has somewhat clumsily tried to adapt history to 

 the necessity of establishing a connection with the Royal 

 house of Malacca and thus obtaining for the Perak Rajas 

 the benefit of an apocryphal descent from Alexander of 

 Macedonia. 



The manuscript gives a few details regarding the reigns 

 of twelve Perak Rajas commencing with Muzafar Shah (to 

 whose accession I should be inclined to assign the date A.D. 

 1550) and ending with Mahmud Shah, in whose time the 

 Bugis invasion of Kedah (A.D. 1770) took place. The 

 average duration of one reign is about 19 years. Two inva- 

 sions of Perak by the Achinese are recorded, both of which 

 resulted in the defeat of the Perak Malays and the captivity 

 of members of the Royal family and of various Chiefs. Two 

 Bugis invasions are also mentioned. 



An allusion which has a special interest for Europeans is 

 the mention of the Dutch factory at Tanjong Putus in the Pe- 

 rak river, in the reigns of Sultan Iskauder (about A. D. 1756) 

 and of his predecessor, Sultan Muzafar Shah (Murhom Hajl.) 



No dates are given in this manuscript, but it is possible 

 to supply them in some places from what is known of the 

 history of Achin and Johor. Perak gave Achin one of her 

 most famous kings, Mansur Shah, whose persevering attacks 

 upon the Portuguese in Malacca are a matter of authentic 

 history. Crawfurd assigns the year 1567 as the date of his 

 accession in Achin. The Perak chronicler does not mention 

 him by name, but in relating the events of the first Achinese 

 invasion states that the eldest son of the Perak king (Mur- 

 hom Kota Lama) was among the captives and was taken by 

 the Queen of Achin as her husband, This was no doubt the 



