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" collecting all merchants ; for many different ra- 

 " ees 6f merchants frequented it, and all its great 

 men were extremely just in all their proceed- 

 ** iDg3."t SuUhaun Mahommed Shah also added 

 the islands of Lingua and Bintang to hi?; possess* 

 ions. On his decease he was sue- y^^^^ ji^g. 

 ceeded by his son Rajah Ibrahim, 

 who on his accession to the throne assumed the 

 title of SuUhaun Abu Sbahid, This prince was 

 murdered after a reigo of one year and five months, 

 and his brother,, Rajah Kasim> as* ^^g. 

 cended the throne under the title of 

 Sulthaun Mudhafer Shah, 



This prince became celebrated io Malayan sto- 

 ry for his justice and clemency, and ordered the 

 KUab Undang Undung, or book of institutes, to 

 be drawn up in order to promote the impartial 

 admimstration of the laws. The king of Siam. 

 hearing of the fame uf Malacca, was filled with a 

 desire to conquer it ; he accordingly made two 

 unsuccessful attacks upon it, in the latter of which 

 he paid bis life a forfeit for his ambition. After 

 reigning 42 years, Sulthauu Mudhafer, or Mozas- 

 sar. Shah died, and was succeeded by his son, 

 Kajah Abdullah, who assumed the j^d, ut^, n«i- 

 name of SuUhaun Manzur Shah. 

 This prince having heard that Pahaug, at that 

 time a dependency of Siam, was an extensive 

 and fertile coontr}', determined upon annexing it 

 to his own dominions— He accordingly despatch- 

 ed an army against it, which totally routed the 

 Pahang warriors, and Maha Rajah Dewa Sura, 

 the sovereign of the country, fell into the haads 

 of Sri Vija di Rajah, one of the Malacca chiefs. 



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