•nm i'ii>»fc< n Mi^Miw n p^i im i h p 



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f of kofililif tes— Detaii of operaihns 

 — Troops re treat to Suongf t Patttfe-^ Panto at Maiacca in- 

 crmsvM^LiijhC ttmptmy iff f he '19th arrives from Somgei 

 Pattjft — Limitnnnt Whitn kiUfd^The troops Jinatty retreat 

 to Mulacctt with the lost of tht f/um, 



BEKORE reverting to the affairs of Malacca, 

 it will be necessary lo take a slight review ot'ihe 

 nature of ibe native Governments and of the dif- 

 ferent offices and titles of their chief:*. 



The peculiar style of the Pangliooloos of the 

 different stales of Rumbow, Soongie Oojong, 

 Johoi, and Nanning, have been already de* 

 tailed, * as well as that they derive their origin 

 fiom iMenangkabow, and adhere to the same 

 piiiK*iptes of Goveroment as those observed in 

 the parent stale* Their interests used at an ear- 

 lier period to be conhidered the same, but Nan- 

 ning, thougli still admitted to conferences of a 

 genera! nature, was unavoidably excluded from 

 deliberations whidi a fl eeted peace or war» after 

 Kbe had fallen "under Eurupe^T}, and consequently 

 foreign, dumi nation. 



The Ime of succession in all four states is the 

 same, or, in other words, that which obtains hi 

 the roya! family of Menangkabow, or, as it is 

 sometimes denominated, Pagaroogoong : instead 

 of the tide descending, a*> it naturally should do. 

 on the son of the detiea^ed Chieftain, it falls upon 

 the son of his eldest ^ijster. 



This extraordinary deviation from the acknow- 

 ledged principle^ of succession is thus tradition- 

 ally accounted for, although, from the nsnal in- 

 at ten I ion to dates observable more or less in all 

 legends^ but especially Kastem ones, T am una- 



• vide pp. 60, 61, 64, 



