SUNGAI UJONG. 
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Dato’ Sekudai flourished in the first half of the seventeenth 
century and possessed two married children when the “ Malay 
Annals ” were written. Sungai Ujong tradition would have us 
believe that he wedded Batin Sibu -Jaya in the presence of Sultan 
Abdul-Jalil II (1639-1673), and brought up in Sungai Ujong a 
second family who elected to be known as To’ Musang and To’ 
.Tebat — “the Polecat” and “the Skunk” — instead of l>earing the 
title of Tun by which members of the great Bendahara family were 
known. This is hard to accept. If the I)ato’ Ivelambu did “ open ” 
Sungai Ujong he must have lived long before the seventeenth 
century, and been confused with some other person — possibly a 
real Muhammad Turnbu or To’ Jebat — who obtained from the 
Bendahara Sekudai a hereditary right to the ancient title of 
Pengliulu Manteri. Anyhow from this time we get a succession of 
Rulers of Sungai Ujong: — 
Pengliulu Selat; 
Pengliulu Kadim; 
Pengliulu Pandale; 
Pengliulu Chantele; 
Pengliulu Rumah Gedang (or Rumah Bcrtatali). 
They are names and little more. Tradition varies as regards 
the order in which they ruled ; it tells nothing of their relationship 
to one another; it is uncertain if Pengliulu Chantele and Pengliulu 
Rumah Gedang may not have been one and the same person ; and 
it cannot tell us if the names 
Pengliulu hilang di-Diwa, 
Pengliulu hilang di-Gayan, 
Pengliulu hilang di Danau Buaya, 
represent additional rulers or are descriptions of those already 
mentioned. 
In all this mass of doubt there are one or two grains of de- 
finite evidence. It is said that the Bugis invasion of Sungai Ujong 
took place in the days of Penghulu Chantek; that the first Dato’ 
Klana (Badur) was the son of Penghulu Chantek; that the second 
Klana (Delia) was the son of Penghulu Rumah Gedang; and that 
it was in the time of this second Klana the Linggi settlers came. 
It is said also that the first Klana (Badur) was installed during 
the lifetime of his father ; but this may be an etymological theory 
to explain the word Putera in the Klana’s title. This evidence 
does not take us far. The Bugis invasion may have occurred at any 
daite between 1725 and 1770 A.D. ; and the coming of the Linggi 
settlers at any time between 1775 and 1790 A.D. One fact of im- 
portance stands out, namely the acquisition of the title of Kelana 
Putera by the ruling house of Sungai Ujong. Who conferred it? 
When was it conferred? And why? Tradition sometimes ascribes 
the title to Sultan Abdul-Jalil II who was far too early (1639-1671 
A.D.) : at other times to Raja Melewar (1773-1795 A.D.), who was 
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