;fi U M A T R A. 
GoremmeBt Jn PaJJmmahi which nearly borders upon Riim^f to the fourhwird, 
there Appears fome difference in the mode of government, though the 
fame fpirit pervades both the chiefs being equally without a regular 
coercive power, and the people equally free in the choice of whom they 
will ferve. This is an extcnfive, and> comparatively, populous country^ 
bounded on the north weft by that of Lamattang^ and on the foutheaft by 
that of LmpooH * the river of Fadang-gochie marking the divifion from 
the latter, near theTea coall. It is difliuguilhed into Paflummah kbhar, or 
the broad, which lies inland, extending to within a day's journey of 
M&caro Mcolang^ on Palmhang river ; and Paflummali ^ko Manna^ which 
is on the weftcrn fide of the range of hills, whither the mhabitants 
are faid to have moftly removed, in order to avoid the government of 
theDurch* 
PaiTummah is governed by four pangerans, who arc perfeSly inde- 
pendent of each other, but they acknowledge a kind of fovereignty in 
the Sultan of Palmhmjg^ from whom they hold a chop (warrant) and re* 
ctlvc a. faiiMg (inveftiture), on their acccSion.^ This fubordination is 
the confequence of the king of Bamtam's former influence over this part 
of the iiland, Pakn^ang being a port at that time dependant on him, 
and fliil on the Dutch^ whofe inflrument the fultan is; and the people 
are for the greater part Javans.-f- There is an inferior pangeran in al- 
moft every doofoou ; that title being nearly as common in PalTummah, 
as dupatty towards the fea coaft \ who are chofen by the inhabitants of 
the doofoon, and con£rmed by the fuperior pangeran, whom they aflift 
in the determination of caufes. In the low country, where the pepper 
'planters re fide, whofe race is minced with colonifts from Reja/ig and a place 
* The Grand Signior in like manner fends a reft and turban to his great vaffals* 
t " A king of Bantam, in 1 596, fdl befor« Palmban, a rebtl town of Sumatra which He Wia 
teCeging ; and ihe ficge xvas raifcd thereupon/' Navigations aux Ind. On, 1605. 
Fmgtrait is properly a Javanefe title, introiJuced on Sumatra, and prtvailjfig m\j in the routhtm 
called 
