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Thus terminated this singular rule of females, (b) to the exclusion 

 of males, in Achin ; acquiesced in, according to some writers, by the 

 hobles and people, on account of their finding feminine sway more 

 endurable than that of males. This is stated with perfect gravity. 



25. Sultan Badr-al-Alum Sherif Hasim Jemal Uddin, A. H. 1111. 

 Eetired from the cares of government 1113, A. H. He is said to have 

 been originally a priest. 



26. Sultan Perkassa-Alum Sherif Al Mactawi, Ibn Sherif, Ibn 

 Ibrahim, A. H. 1113, nephew of the last Sultana, reigned a few months 

 only, and was succeeded by the son of Badr-al-Alum, under the title 

 of Badr-al-Munir. 



27. Sultan Jemal-al-Alum, Badr-al-Munir. A.H.I 115. Deposed 

 A. H. 1139 by his subjects. 



He escaped by sea to Pedir under cover of the night. After an in- 

 terregnum of twenty-two days, Maharaj of Kampong Prang was 

 elected under the title of Amma-uddin Shah. 



28. Sultan Jouhar-al Alum, Amma-uddin Shah. A.H.I 139. Died 

 in the same year, twenty-one days after his accession to the throne. 

 The four mukims elected Undaye Tebbing under the title of Shems al- 

 Alum. 



29. Sultan Shems-al-Alum. A. H. 1139. This monarch was de- 

 posed, thirty days after his accession, by his ministers and subjects. 



Maharaja Selah Malayu was elected in his stead by the unanimous 

 voice of the Hulubalangs, and the three Saghis, under the title of 

 Ahmed Shah. 



30. Sultan Ala-uddin Ahmed Shah. A. H. 1139. Reigned up- 

 wards of eight years, and died A. H. 1148. On his decease the de- 



(b) Regarding this period of Achinese history, we find the following passage in 

 Marsden. 



" In proportion as the political importance of the kingdom declined, its history be- 

 comes obscure. There are no accounts to be met with of the transactions of this reign, 

 and it is probable that Acheen took no active part in the affairs of the neighbouring 

 powers, but suffered the Dutch to remain in quiet possession of Malacca. Even the 

 period of its duration is not marked. In 1688 a queen of Acheen died, but as she is de- 

 scribed by the English gentlemen, who went there on an embassy from Madras, in 1684, 

 to be then about forty years of age, she must have been a successor, and perhaps not the 

 immediate one, of Peducka's widow. These persons declare their suspicions, which 

 were suggested to them by a doubt prevailing amongst the inhabitants, that this sovereign 

 was not a real queen, but an eunuch dressed up in female apparel, and imposed on the 

 public by the artifices of the orang cayos. But a? such a cheat, though managed with 

 every semblance of reality (which they observe was the case), could not be carried on for 

 any number of years without detection, and as the same idea does not appear to have 

 been entertained at any other period, it is probable they were mistaken in their surmise. 



" Her person they describe to have been large, and her voice surprisingly strong, but 

 not manly. The purport of the embassy was to obtain liberty to erect a fortification in 

 her territory, which she peremptorily refused, being contrary to the established rules of 

 the kingdom. The English however finally succeeded in re-establishing their factory." 



