62 ATUKAN SUNGEI UJONG. 



allowed him to collect taxes on the produce of the district — fowls, 

 and ducks, and goats and buffaloes, and tin, etc., etc. 



Klana Badur died and was succeeded by Klana Leha in the 

 Bandarship of Bandar Mogah. It was the Klana Leha who con- 

 sulted with the i^.andar about appointing chiefs to have authority 

 under the Dato' Mendika and the Dato' Maharaja di Kaja. They 

 appointed the Dato' Mentri and lato' Leilah Bang^ea, and Dato' 

 Ma'raja Leilah and Dato' Johan, and Dato' Eaja di Muda, each 

 to l)e head of his respective suku ( tribe ) in the Waris di Darat. 

 'i he Bandar appointed, under the Dato' Kaja, the Dato' Si Ma'raja, 

 the Dato' Paduka Eaja. and Dato' Pangliina Besar (for the Waris 

 di Ayer). Now^ when in time the Klana Leha had returned to 

 the Meicy of God, the I ato' Mendika took counsel with the 

 I'ato's under him, and without consulting the Bandar or the Dato' 

 Eaja, they chose Klana L'ahi to succeed Klana Leha. Upon this 

 the 1 ato' Ma'iaja di Eaja went to the 1 ato' Bandar, and the Ban- 

 dar Laving oicered him to make inquiries, he went to Pantai to 

 question the lato' Mendila. " Who has elected the Klana?" he 

 eaid, and the J ato' Mendika answeied "Klana Bahi has been 

 electtd." To this the Lato' Eaja replied " A^ ait, Diito' Mendika, 

 till the gi:ns aie ready," and then departed. 



Soon after this, cue day when Klana Bahi had gone to bathe, 

 Kawal api eaied at his hoi.se ar.d asked the Klana Bahi's wife 

 to sh'ow him the Klana's seal. The Klana's wife fetched the seal, 

 and while she \\as sLowirg it to him, he snatched it away, and 

 made away with it straight to the lato' Eaja. The Dato' Eaja 

 took it to the Bandar who theieupon oideied that Kawal should 

 be made Klana. This was done, and Kawal was declared Klana 

 and pi oceeded to Pantai. A fight ensued, in which Panglima 

 Besar Badji Saleh was wounded in the aim by a bullet. By the 

 intervention of the I ato' Eaja, a meeting was arranged between 

 Klana Bahi and Klana Kawal, and hostilities were suspended. 

 Finally, Klana Bahi retired in anger to Setul, and shortly after- 

 wards he died there, and no one was afterwards elected Klana in 

 his stead. Now Klana Kawal appointed his younger brother 

 ramed Sindarg to be Lalxsanana with the same rank of Pang- 

 hma Betar, and he was the fir>t Laksan ana in the State. The 

 Laksamana is the first of the Klana's officers, and the Panglima 

 Eesar is the first of the Bandar's (kepala juhak). And because 

 the descendants of the adopted sou of PeDghulii SaJat had he- 



