11*3 V JOURNEY B JOHORK- 



satisfactory answer. 1 left the village about 

 an hour after my arrival tliere; I sailed for 

 Joliore, where 1 arrived at four o'clock p.m. 



Johore, formerly the chief city of the 

 empire of that name and residence of the 

 Sultan, is situated about twenty miles up 

 the river. The town was founded in 1 5 1 1 

 or 1 5 1 a A. D. by Sultan Mahomad Shall H 

 of Malacca, who, after his expulsion from 

 that place by tlie Portuguese, fled to the 

 river of Johore. From that time the town 

 of Johore has been the capital of the em- 

 pire, which took the name of the empire of 

 Johore instead of that of Malacca. 



The inhabitants of Johore told me that 

 their town was formerly a considerable one, 

 that the Sultan who used to reside there 

 had a fortified castle, and that the city was 

 adorned by several handsome buildings 

 erected chiefly upon some elevated ground, 

 distant a lew hundred steps from the last 

 houses of t[ie present village going down 



