■cltBOwledgc thciw, as tlie pnnfftilonTf 

 of Rumbow hdi' htttn remarkijip to 

 IDC The ftuiiQfuloiihs ackncwlcd^c 

 willingly tr> hokl thcii" poivef from 

 tlictr suzeraiu, and even some pav 

 them a tribute of politenci^?- The 

 SuUans try to do today by thvW pom- 

 pous edict what they were duiog for- 

 merly by their armies ; the^se cdifts 

 are generally reueivt^d with nutwsird 

 iJnuonstrfittonit of the most prutound 

 respectj but they arc not executed, 

 6S abovenieiitioned'j unless they fa- 

 vor the interests of those to whom 

 they are directed. In thet;c li^tter 

 years, ^the Tungulonh of Itumbow 

 bein^ at uar with his preiiecegsoPj who 

 had iibdicated to jaiid vUit the totnh 

 of Ala homed ut Mccen, mnde pcacR 

 with his oppozienl^j) after hn^th hail burnt 

 a few houses among Iheir Huhjects and 

 lost a few men, throun^h the lucdiation 

 of their uiutiial e^uziir^in, Kajah Oad< 

 din^ of Bcrirnanaiiti, 



The wcariug^ iipparcl of ihe imperial 

 fativily h of yeJiou^ eolor ; two flags 

 arc the insignia of the SoUun ; a yelW 

 one opcna the march of hi;* escort, and 

 a red one dusfs it. The Malay Pud- 

 golooh have^ us an in?»ii^tjiu of Lhcif 

 power a red llai^» Mniilar in every res- 

 pect to thftt of the ^nltiin. At the 

 begining; of ^ny travds tbroughont the 

 peuinsub» beioff in c^nnipany with the 

 Hev, Mr Favrc, in 18^17, we founii our- 

 nhe^f on A certain evening, Ht the 



