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subsequently visited Salangor and was escorted back as far as 

 Kwala Bernam by the newly created Eaja. 



A Bugis invasion of Kedali/'" which is no doubt that spok- 

 en of by English writers as having occurred in the year 

 1770, is then described by the Perak historian in the follow- 

 ing passage. 



" It is related that a certain Bugis Chief, one Eaja Haji, 

 whom people called Pangeran, came from Rhio to Salan- 

 gore, the reigning sovereign of that kingdom being a rela- 

 tion of his. There he concerted measures for an attack 

 upon Kedah and stopped at Perak on -his wa}^. He cast an- 

 chor just below the Dutch fort and the Dutchmen were a 

 good deal alarmed when they saw his numerous his vessels 

 were. He gave out that he wanted to see the Raja of Perak, 

 so the Laksamana and the Shahbandar went up the river to 

 Pulo Besar Indra Mulia and presented themselves before 

 the Sultan with the intelligence that the Pangeran had ar- 

 rived with the Raja of Salangore and had anchored below 

 the Dutch fort and that he wanted an audience with His 

 Highness. They said that he had a great number of prahus, 

 one hundred and twenty sail, more or less, and asked for 

 His Highness instructions as they had heard that the strang- 

 er meditated some evil design upon the kingdom of Perak. 

 Then the King said " Let him come up the river. I have 

 no fear or apprehension." At the same time His Highness 

 ordered that all his nobles and warriors and men-at-arms 

 should be collected and fully equipped with their weapons 

 and accoutrements. When they were all assembled at Pulo 

 Besar Indra Mulia, the Pangeran came up the river and 

 as far up as Telok Panadah the river was crowed with his 

 vessels from bank to bank. Then His Highness said " Be- 

 ing up the Pengeran to see me." So he was led up by the 

 Laksamana and the Shahbandar and entered the presence 

 of Sultan Mahmud Shad with the King of Solan gor. And 

 whom he looked upon the face of the Sultan he was seized 

 with great fear and alarm, which was increased when he 



* Murhoni Kiangan of Kedah had two brothers and several Nephews who 

 thought themselves injured by the election of Abdullah (son of the Sultan 

 by a slave girl) to the succession. In the year 1770 they raised a rebellion 

 and brought the people of Selangor and Perak to their assistance. They 

 entered Kedah. but finding the people did not join thern they burned Alors- 

 tar., then a very flowrishing town, and at the Kwala took several of the 

 Coast vessels and carried off a considerable deal of plancler. The old King- 

 was so much enraged that be forbad them ever returning to the country. 

 The disappointed Princes returned to Salangore where they died in want 

 and misary. Cajjt. Light in Anderson's Considerations ; p. 15-3. 



See also Newbohl Vol. II, p, 0, 



