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'* eTery tbmg, and perhaps banish \i% from the 

 " comttry.'* This speech had the desired effect, 

 and Abdul Rachman thence forward treated bis 

 brother witii cold d ess and neglect. 



The fourth widow of Sulthann Mahomed Shah, 

 viz ; Tuankoo Pootri, learning the a. d. leii. Hng. 

 state of affairs, and being favorably 

 inclined towards Tuankoo Hou^sain. suiiuuo.it^d 

 him to attend her at Pulo Pinigad, where she was 

 then residing, and adopted liim a** her own son. 

 It is a circumstance worthy of remark that t!ie 

 princes of Johore never remove their wives from 

 the land of their birth ; thus Tunnkoo Pootri, as 

 well as the other widows of Sulthaun Mahomed 

 Shah, and the young brJde of Tuankoo Houssain, 

 remained in their respective native countries. 



This year Inchi Oowan Alii, the lais. Hfg. 

 Bandharra of Pahang. and brother- 

 in law of Tuankoo Houssain, reached the island of 

 Bulang, with a force which he intended to unite 

 with that assembiiog at Pulo Piuigad, under 

 Tuankoo Houssain, who had resolved upon an 

 appeal to arms for the recovery of his crown. 

 Rajah Japhar» alarmed at these warlike prepara- 

 tions, applied to the British Resident at Malacca 

 for bis idterventioo, and Mr. Adrian Koek was 

 accordingly despatched by that functionary to 

 intimate to the Bandharra that any attempt to 

 disturb the tranquillity of Linggin would draw- 

 down the displeasure of the British Government; 

 This prince, perceiving that in such a case suc- 

 cess was hopeless, abandoned his design ^mt 

 withdrew to Pahang. 



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