NOTES ON TWO PERAK MANUSCRIPTS. 191 



To which he adds the following verse of his own ; 



S'ungei Singkir selat bentarang * 

 Kapitan Pulo Indra Sakti 

 Patek nen pikir dagang yang korang 

 Mat ta sanipei bagei di hati 



A mission to India was one of the principal events of 

 Iskandar Shah's reign and the despatch of a Kling trader, 

 named Tamby Kachil, to the Coromandel Coast (benoa Kling) 

 to persuade ship-owners to come to Perak to buy elephants, 

 his return with a ship, his enthusiastic reception and the 

 embarkation of the elephants are graphically described. But 

 the royal amusements and ceremonies receive much more of 

 the author's attention than incidents of this kind. They 

 are relieved here and there by enlivening touches, as when we 

 read, on the occasion of a public rejoicing when all nationali- 

 ties shared in the general festivities, that " the Dutch went 

 " through their exercises with muskets and blunderbuses 

 4 ° and the Chinese musical instruments w r ere exceedingly 

 " numerous and sounded like the noise of frogs in a pond 

 '•when rain is just commencing to fall." 



In another place " the Panglima of Larut' 3 is described as 

 presenting himself before the Sultan at Sayong " with 

 "all his followers (Sakei), people of Buldt Gantang and 

 " people of Penkalan and Permatang, an exceedingly large 

 " number/' an allusion to localities which have become well 

 " known of late years. 



An expedition which Sultan Iskander made to the mouth 

 of the Perak river is celebrated in a long form which takes 

 up a number of pages in the latter part of the book. To 

 have descended the river to the sea was evidently a feat of 

 no small magnitude for a Raja of Perak of those days and 

 was accordingly immortalised in a fitting manner. It is too 

 long, kow T ever, for translation here, and too diffuse for 

 extracts. 



After a reign of fourteen years Sultan Iskander died and 

 received the posthumous title of " Murhom Mamhar-ullah" 

 He was succeeded by Sultan Mahmud Shah of whose reign 

 a short account if given, and with whose death and the 

 accession of Sultan Aladin the chronicle ends, In his time 

 the Raja of Sclangor visited Perak and is stated to have 

 received the nobat, the insignia of royalty, and the title of 

 Sultan Saladin from the Perak sovereign, The latter 



