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Phtces. — Sempang deacrves liwt metitiau. ilcru the Rembiiu anti 
Mmr join and form the Linggi, find n Vulkc Statiou slaiicls iu the aagle 
thus formed, on some laud cwkd to (iovt'rnment in 187i. It was formerly 
oBe of the chief places in lljmbau. Kwdla P^das, a few m'dc^ up the 
Rt'mbiiu on the rij^ht bank, was another ; but both these districts have been 
deserted. In tlic same way , tbo cupvtal is not easy to deliiie, for each 
?necessive Ptnighfiln s^'cnis to have bis own. Bandar M-^au was the 
residence of the Yam Tuan Muda, Jind latterly of the es-Penghillti, Haji 
Sail. In 1837, Newbold Baid the Pengbulu resided at Chcmbong : the 
present Prnghdlii resi({es ut Oemayun near Cliengkau. 
Govr/'utitc/d, ifr,— The Oovcrunicnt of Rfnnbau is the hvAt type of 
tlie tribal system to he funiid in the PeniiiiiuL'i. lu something like it* in'esent 
fV>rm. it pmbably earae over with the earliest immip:r;int* tVom Sumatni, 
and has istnce bf^en maintained with great conservnttsm mnou;^ tlk« twelve 
Sukn^t or tribes. It is hy and among the or hereditary chiefs 
of these tribes, that the Prnghiilu miiat he ek'ctcd. This election follows 
very miiinteand duborati' rules, grafted by the Sumatran iininijjnmU n[*ou 
the aborif^iiial sy.steni, of one feature of which the follmitig is a sum- 
mary : — 
" Beduantla is the name of one of the chief aboriginal tiibes in the 
South of the P< ninsnla. nnd two of the chief Hemban clans bear the same 
name— the Bi-duaiula Jawa. and lUc Bf^dnarida Jakun— IVum which the 
I'rnghnlu is alternately elcet<*(l. 
This altcrnute election is siid t<> he due to a dispute between the two 
braucbes of the Bcduanda, over the ri>rbt to elect the l^etighMu, which wa,s 
settled hy the sovereign ol; Jolior giving each the ri^lit altcrnatel}'. 
" At the same time, lie gave distinctive title.n to the Prughfdus — to the 
one ejected from the ' BSdnuTida Jawa* that o? ' Srdia KAja/ to him ol 
the ' BMuanda Jaknu^ that of ' Lela Mahanija/ " 
The office of Li"mWiga, or electoral chief, is hereditary, descending on 
the side uf the sister^ in Nining and all the Mt^nangkdbau States, 
PAHAyO. 
Ptthang, betN'itrLMi TringiiAtnt and .Tofior, extends along the eastern 
side of the Penin^^ula fru!n"2'^" 40' to 4"" 3;>' North, and has about 130 
milefe of sea-coast on the OulT ni' Biam.^ Its bonndario< are the Iliver 
Chcnlting, with Tringfjanu ; the River Kndau, with Johor ; and a line* 
along tlie ca^stern frontier of the States Jelcba, Sclangor and P^rak to 
tlie West. To the IS'orlh-West the boundary is not defined, but may be 
taken as following the watershed of the.Ulu Pahang. 
Krteut, ($-e.~its area probably eseeedj^ 10,00: ► square railes; and its 
line of greatest length, tVom Ulu iindan to L'lu Perak, a|*[n'ouchcs 200 
miles, far exeeetling the length of any such line wliich can posNifily he drawn 
in aiiy otiier State of the Peninsula. Besides the territur}' olx the 
raaiuiund, Pahang inelndes t^ro chains of islets running parallel to itu 
■Ttip moTrntain rnn^ dirifir^ Polianjf: auft Pr!An<roT: a^rl a HupTwged Mac roiosb the 
KlvcrTrkiiff r.t Sunproi Du*. below Kw-aLa CMiui. fannfi thr pnn j'*i€nnl UnTrTnljin- (l^M) 
with ji^IPbn. 
