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hara (treasurer or first minister) took to himaelf 

 the territory of ftisittg* Oa!^ tibd eiifitem 

 the Maky penitt^k^ h aw odmiislmljr de- 

 signated rajah of that place. The Tumangung, 



or cliicf judo'e, seized upon tlic corn'spoiiding 

 territory, on the western side, with the adjacent 

 klands* Thfe h the person from whom tfi- 

 edlVed the first of oar fttotcay* Sfe in^- 

 formed rue," c^Mli^UGS Crawford, " thiit he liad 

 settled in Singapore for the first time, in 1811, 

 a few niontliis !>efore our cxi^'dition [u^^i^ed 

 through the harbourj on its route to the capture 

 of Jafit,! 



Sidtoa Mahomet had two illegitimate acmsj. 



who were competitors for tlic throne, but the 

 rlainis of neither were atteiKk'tl to, and tliey 

 continued in a state of ^■ag'rancy and poverty 

 imMl the Dtt^ md. English gov^miiQml?^ 

 th^ir own pwtpm^, Ihottghl it ijee^sary to pa- 

 tronize respectively one of the parties. One of 

 them, now aeknowledged Snltan ofJeliorc, iind 

 who still resides in tlie island, came over to it a 



^icKi^i^m0: 4fteiir|t(ur fix^^ and wm, in 



due plm^ ttpm mt pmmn lisl. ft 



was with this individual, and the inferior chief 

 ah'eady named, that a treaty for the cession of 

 the island was conchidiHl in Augnst, 18:24. 

 They received for the sovereignty and fee-simph* 



