50 
A JOURNEY IN JO MORE. 
By the Revd. P. Favre, Apostolic Missionary, Malacca. 
The many difficulties I had met with in the several jour- 
nies I had already undertaken in the Malay countries, from 
the petty chiefs who are established in each village, convin¬ 
ced me that it was almost impossible to succeed in such 
journeys without having previously obtained a regular pass¬ 
port from the rulers of the Malayan States. In September 
1846, I therefore repaired to Singapore to obtain from His 
Majesty the Sultan of Johore, and His Highness the Tum- 
mongong of Singapore the necessary permission to travel in 
the Johore territory * As I was acquainted with the mother 
of His Majesty the Sultan, I had taken the precaution of 
obtaining from her a letter of recommendation to the Sultan ; 
by these means I found the way of communicating with 
His Majesty free from obstacle. 1 was received by him with 
remarkable familiarity and kindness, and a few days after 
the requested document, duly authenticated with the Sultan’s 
seal, was delivered to me. 
I likewise asked the same from His Highness the Tu- 
mungong of Singapore. I was neither received by him so 
familiarly nor so kindly; he gave me however the permis¬ 
sion requested ; but he gave it by word only, saying that the 
document already given by the Sultan was sufficient, and 
assuring me that the authority of the Sultan and his own 
were unum et idem.* 
I left Singapore on the fifth of September; I was accom¬ 
panied by an Indo-Portuguese boy as servant, and by a 
Chinese as cooly j the boat which conveyed me was of a 
small size, having two Malabar men as rowers, in case the 
wind should fail, and one as pilot.t My provisions consist¬ 
ed of a few gantangs of rice, and a small quantity of dried 
* So far ia this from being the case that the Tamungong exercises all the 
authority and receives all the revenues of the Sovereign. Had M. Favre been 
aware of this and gone direct to the Tamungong for a letter, he would have 
fared better in his journey. The Malays look upon the Sultan of Linga as 
the Sultan of Johore, and the British authorities apparently acquiesce in this, 
for although they have recognized Tunku Alii as the successor of his late father 
the Sultan of Johore (by whom and the late Tamungong Singapore was ceded 
to us) no steps have been taken to make this recognition more than nominal.—. 
Ed. 
f More mistakes. All the men should have been Malays, and furnished by 
the Tamungong, who takes great pleasure in obliging Europeans who desire to 
Visit Johore,*— Ed. 
