188 NuTEs on TWO PERAK JMAtftfSCRIPTS, 



Murhovn Pulo Juwa. He commences liis narrative by a short 

 account of the genealogy of Sultan Muzafar Shah, with 

 whose reign the history opens. Then follows a description 

 of a revolution which resulted in the proclamation of another 

 Sultan who established himself in lower Perak under the 

 title of Sultan Mohamed Shah, while the rightful Sultan had 

 to retreat up the river to Kwala Kangsa, " where he built a 

 palace and fortified it." The reconciliation of the rival 

 Rajas and the restoration of Muzafar Shah to power by the 

 voluntary surrender of his power by Mohamed Shah are 

 related in detail. The latter did not long survive his 

 retirement. Two important events happened in the later 

 years of Muzafar Shah, an invasion of Perak by some Bugi's 

 adventurers under one Raja Bakabat and the re-establishment 

 of -the Dutch factory on the Perak river. The Bugis inva- 

 ders must have entered Perak by what is now called the 

 Larut river and penetrated as far as Bukit C4antang, where 

 they were defeated by the Perak forces despatched from 

 Kwala Kangsa under the Raja Muda and pursued to Kivala 

 Pangkalan (probably the Larut river) whence it may be sup- 

 posed they made their escape from the country by sea. 



The first mention of the Dutch gives some interesting 

 particulars regarding the reopening of their commercial in- 

 tercourse with Perak, which it may be inferred had been 

 stopped for some time. I subjoin a short extract, 



••The Dutch were ordered by their Raja to proceed 

 "from Batavia to Malacca and thence to Perak and they 

 "asked the Raja of Perak to grant them a place for a set- 

 "tlenient and they selected Pangkalan Halban. Their 

 "object was the purchase of tin, and the price they gave 

 ••was thirty two dollars a bliara exclusive of a tax of two 

 " dollars a bhara. All their wishes met with the approval 

 "of Saltan 'Muzafar Shah. And the Dutch lived at Peiig- 

 " kalan Halban and built a warehouse and stockaded it all 

 " round. After this no one was permitted to export tin, 

 "for all of it had to be given to the Dutch, but thenceforth 

 " dollars, not tin, were taken out of the country on trad- 

 " bag voyages. As for the Dutch themselves, their Captain 

 " was changed once.in every three years. And in the course 

 " of the long period during which they occupied Pangkalan 

 '•Halban and had charge of Kwala Perak they paid an 

 " immense number of dollars to the Sultan in the way of 

 "duty and numbers of people in the Country became 

 " wealthy." 



