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hts wishes to his two sons, preparations were 

 made for the voyage of Tuankoo Flousj^ain to Pa« 

 hang, and that same year he quitted Linggin, ac- 

 companied by bis father, who conducted him as 

 far as Bnhug, (one of the Battang group of is- 

 lands, nearly opposite Singapore), and, as a proof 

 of his attachment and intention that Tnankoo 

 Houssain should succeed to the crown, the Sul- 

 thaun caused him to hoist the royal standard, 

 he himself displaying the white flag which is 

 emblematical of a retirement from the c fires and 

 anxieties of empire. He further invented him 

 with the grand seal of the empire, termed in Ma- 

 layesei " Chap de Rajah-an" which seal Tuankoo 

 Hoiis£;ain uses to this day. 



As tiQon as the SuUhaun Elect had quitted 

 Bulang in prosecution of his voyage to Pahang, 

 Sulthaun Mahomed Shah returned vid Rhio to 

 Linggin, aad again notified hi3 desire that Tuan* 

 koo Abdul Rachman should proceed to Mecca by 

 the first favourable opportunity. The Sulthaun, 

 however, suddenly expired shortly a, n, im. Heg. 

 after his arrival at Ling;gin, not 

 without strong suspicions of having been poison- 

 ed by Rajah Moodah Japhar, the 'second per:»on 

 in the empire, who was then at Linggin. 



On the momiog subsequent to the demise of 

 SuUhaun Mahomed Shah, the Rajah Moodah as- 

 sembled such of tlie chiefe as were either able or 

 willing to attend, and thus addressed them, 

 ** Our Sulthaun is no more. He died yester 

 *' evening, but he has left us two sons — ^say, which 

 " of the two will you chuse as your sovereign?" 

 Two of the oldest and most influentiai of th« 



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