the Malay peninsula. 



bnnn deserted. Nor is the capital easy to dcfiiip, for ea.-h amvessivn 

 P3aghu.lu seerus to have his own, bandar rUwitt was ih« residence of 

 tha Yam Tiiaii Muds, and latterly of the es-Penshfilu, JUji Sail. In 

 lflS7i New-bold said ilm l'eiigliufn n-Milnl at ChOmhong: the present 

 Pt'njrtiUlu rusides tit Gemayan near (.lieiigknn. 



The Government of Kembnu is the best type of the tribal system to lie 

 found ill the Peninsula, In something liko its present fern, it probnhly 

 came over walh the, earliest immigrant* from Sumatra, and has sincu been 

 maintained with great cen&ervatUiTn among the twelve Sukna or tribes, It 

 i* by ami aiunnp tli« L?mW<j<i. or ln'rr.Jii.ny chirfu of iIl.ni- Ltiln-), 1 ! . it 

 the Pt'iigbulu must be elected, This flection fallout very minute and 

 rliiUtratv n.lh-T, grafted by 1h«' Snmiilnut immigrant* ujhuj the aboriginal 

 system, of one feature of which the fi»J lowing is -i .•iimiinary : — 



" Beduandu Lhi the name of one of the chief aboriginal tril^ft in the 



south of the Peninauln, ntnl (wimf r'l hii-f ]£i"ml«iu clans bear the same. 



name — the fieduauda Jawa, «tnd tbe Beiluauda Jaknn — from which the 

 Penfrhulu in alternately elected, 



*'Thi.H alternate flection is Raid to be due to a dispute between tho two 

 bnswhei of the lli-duaada, ow the right to elect the Peughulu, which was 

 settled by the sovereign nf Johor giving each the right alternately. 



" At the same time, lie gave diMtiuetive titles to the Ptnghulua — ta the 

 one elected from the ' Beduabda Jawa 1 thai of 1 Sedia Raja, 1 to him of the 

 * ItedliamJa Julian ' that of * IaAr Maharaja/ u 



the side of the lister, as in Naning and all the Meiiauagkabsu States 



Fshang, between Tringgunii unci Juhor, extends along the eastern 

 side of the Peninsula from 2° 40' to 4° 35' N. r and has about 130 

 mile* of Htt-coaat on the Gulf of Shim. Its honmljiries arc the river 

 Cheritting, with Tringginu ; the river Endati, with ..luhor ; and a 

 line along the eastern frontier of Jeir-hu, St'langor and PSrak to the 

 west. To the north-west the boundary ia not defined, but may 

 be taken aa following the watershed of the L'iu Paliang. 



Its area probably exceeds 10,000 square miles, and its line of 

 greatest length, from L'iu ftmlau to L iu Ferak, approaches 200 miles, 

 fur exceeding tb&t of any other State in the Pcninniilft, Beside the 

 territory on the mainland, Pnhatig includes two chains of ialets run- 

 mug parallel to its coast, gem-rally at about 25 luilea distance. The 

 State of Pahang, apart from these iahtmls, ia almost identical with 

 the basin of the river of the same name, in an even greater degree 

 tluiu in the en.se with Pfirak. This river is* shallow and, therefore, 

 mol iho largest in volume j yet, as regards its portion in 1 he very 

 i-i'iitre of the Malay Peninsula, ami the extent of country it drains — 

 from 3 Q to 5° N. — the river Paliatig may fairly be considered the 

 principal stream in the whole region. 



3.— PAHANCJ. 



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