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wait for the favorab le season, when they^itart 

 with- a fiowiijg slieet for Uieir destination. The 

 wind, that blew the news of his futhers death to 

 Tuankoo Hoiissain s etns, was coosequently ad- 

 verse to his return, and, when at length tbt mon- 

 soon changed in his favor, he laaded at Linggm 

 compciratirely friendlei^s, nearly all his partizans 

 having quitted it under the new Government. 

 ll'm ^rmcht adiierent, Incin Oowan Saban, the 

 A, D, imn, H«f. husiband of bis mother'* sister, Tuan- 

 koo Pootri, was pining in a dungeon 

 at Malacca for his attachment to bis cause. He 

 thereliue proceeded at once to the hou^eofhia 

 brother, Tnankoo Abdul Rachman, who not only 

 received bim with great kindness, but divulged 

 to hiTn the whole of the transactions which had 

 taken place in bis absence, and offered at once to 

 abdicate in his favor. But Rajah Jai)har had too 

 great roteresis at stake to snffer this, and the in- 

 terview between tlie brothers had been keenly ob- 

 served by biriK He had watched the fast ebbing 

 of the current of ambition in the breast of his 

 vaciilating puppet, and he accordingly summoned 

 the whirlwind of politics, and the full flood of s^elf 

 interest to efface for ever from the sand the light 

 and mutable characters tiaced on it by the style 

 of fraternal afleetion. No sooner therc'^^jt e had 

 Tuankoo Houssain quitted the presence than he 

 thus addressed his nephew. Yon are about to 

 *' yield the crown, but beware— you fV>rget tliat 

 " you rauHt part with the treasury at the same 

 " time, whilst your brother bears such hatred to 

 " your mother, your uncle, and yourself, that, as 

 *' soon as he has the power, he will deprive ua of 



