THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



Originally there appear to have been four States, which were 

 after wards bmke-Ti up ami modified as shown hi-low : — 



Formerly. A t present* 



Kelnng* — 

 Sungei Ojong. — 



Jeiebu. jmhn. 



Johol 



i JohuL 

 } Iwm &r Ji%i, 

 } Ulu Moar or Sri Menunti. 



( JSmgxiti 



(Four States.) (Six States) 



Of (bene nix Shites, tliose of sufficient importance to deserve 

 specm! *lescrLj*tii»n urc Jel^hu, Johol, Sri Mr-nami a ml Ueudmu. Tin y 

 htiil their origin most probably in the organisation introduced by 

 the Mfnangkiibuu tribes, who have emigrated at different time* 

 from Sumatra to this part of iln- Peninsula, lit tin: day* when 

 Johor was powerful, the !NYgri Keinbilau wero under the Sultan 

 of Johor ; but about 177M, Johor being indifferent about tlio 

 government of these remote tribid Slate« T allowed the Dutch to 

 tiblniu for them, at their request, a Prinqe of true M£nangkahau 

 descent (Raja Melewnr), who, a« Yang-di-Pertuan Ue*nr, mlml civer 

 tlio Confederacy. The States were thus formally federate^ each 

 T'-t.-iiinn^, Imwi-vor, it?) own E\ n-huhi or [>ato\ The r.-:il power 

 vested in the FenghuJu T that of the suzerain being nominal only. 



Thin Biuitalriti im migration, aud the pntilical infctnoflim of th« 

 triih'|H.<ii(leut Primes of Sumatra with thosu el' the Peninsula, deservedly 

 jitirueted the attention of Behohim like Manalen, Leydi-m nml Kn flies. • 

 hut the whole arrangement was of too artificial a kind to lust ]. n^, iirul 

 after five Recessions of Munaogkahau Princes, they ceaaed to be farrlted 

 over (1S"20). Jt jh rioti'Worlhy, however, that t<vt<n I hi' more civil iW 

 Malay*,, especially in lifmhau," still hold to the trilwd orpin ixalicm ; tin- 

 vi iv ii liui'M of many of their tritn»K, siirh as ,L .i,utk A>'hcit" Mnlihi'Il of 

 Achin) and ** Sri LfulnL' JUfnanrfttiifau," Let laying their comparatively 

 nxf.M mi -ration from Sumatra. 



Jelebu is a small State lying 1 to the north and east of Smigei 

 Cjong, and containing about 400 sqmire miles, ami under 1000 

 ink vaunts. It belongs politiralht to tlltt west const, tfmngh 

 physically to the east coast. It has this a peculiarly central 

 position ID regard to this region of the PemnKula, being situ n ted 

 at the great water-parting of the southern portion of it. Jeiebu 

 had, until the year l664 t remained unexplored. It lies between 



