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There have been six Daio’ Manieri; one of them was Kasim, father 
of the present Klana of Snngai Ujong. 
The family of Daio’ Raja’ dv-muda traces its origin to a Batin 
Maabud and held a number of minor dignities under the Dato’ 
Anduleka Manduleka before receiving from Dato’ Klana Kawal 
the lembaga — ship of the Biduanda and the title of Dato’ Raja 
’di-muda. This title has been held by four persons up to the pre- 
sent (1. Pendita, 2. Butang, 3. Muhammad Saleh, and 4. Kulup 
Laboh), but the gilir covers eight families in all. 
A long story is attached to the dignity of Dato’ Maharaja 
Indera. The founder of the family was a certain Gemaboh, khatib 
and mudin to the Sultan of Johor in the days of Batin Sri Adam. 
This man was sent by the Sultan to Pahang and Negri Sembilan 
as a missionary to remove reproach from the uncircumcised. He 
wandered up to Penjum, then to Kuala Dulang in Jelebu where 
he built a mosque, and finally settled with his wife in the Pantai 
rnukim. One of his descendants accompanied the Dato’ Anduleka 
Manduleka on the mission to Raja Melewar, and, like the Dato' 
Umbi, was nicknamed Dato’ Pikir because he thought so much that 
he never spoke at all ! This hereditary nickname was changed re- 
cently into the title of Dato’ Maharaja Indera, lembaga of the Batu 
Hampar tribe: — there have only been two bearers of the newer 
name, — To’ Gudoh and To’ Daud. 
The miscellaneous titles are hard to classify, and may be given 
in order of precedence. 
The Dato’ Dagang of Parui is said to owe his title to the fact 
that Raja Melewar once passed through Parui and found no one 
there whose business it was to receive him. He complained to the 
Klana of this inhospitable treatment, with the result that this 
frontier village was provided with a chief, the Dato Dagang, whose 
duty was the entertainment of distinguished guests. The pre- 
cedence attached to this dignity is doubtless due to the comparative 
age of the office. 
Next after the Dato’ Dagang of Parui comes the Penghulu 
Muda of Labu. The history of this title is lengthy and dates back 
to the days of Dato’ Klana Delia. The mukim of Labu was first 
settled by a certain Dato’ Mangkun, a waris di-ager, who obtained 
from Klana Leha a concession of the locality. The first title given 
to the family was won by Dato’ Mangkun herself; she killed an 
elephant with one tusk and presented the trophy to the Klana who 
dubbed her on the spot the Dato’ Bergajah Tunggal, the lady of 
the Solitary Elephant. The higher title, that of Penghulu Muda, 
was conferred by Dato’ Klana Kawal on Dato’ Mangkun’s grand- 
son Sindeh, with the following emblems of rank: one spear, and 
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