ACCOUNT OF SULU. 
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Mahomed Allimodin (1734) son to Badarodin, by a Soppen woman. 
Marahom Mahomud Mo-i-Jodin, (1748) or B anti lan, Allimo- 
din’s younger brother. 
Mahomud Allimodin II (1763) son to Bantilan. 
Mahomed Allimodin I restored, 1764. 
According to Sir Isaac Newton’s computation of the reign of 
Princes, the Sulu state arose about the beginning of the 15th 
century, however, as Maharam Bongso was on the throne in 1646, 
the six Princes, including him, taken at 20 years, the highest of 
Sir Isaac Newton’s computation, places Sultan Serif about 1526, 
ayd as Sulu was visited by the Spaniards in the Victory’s voyage, 
1521, probably the origin of the kingdom was not later, as other¬ 
wise it would scarcely have been then mentioned the long life 
of Bactial, will account for the exception, which follows to the 
Newtonian system of chronology. 
Oranky Ogu gave to me, on Saturday 8th August, 1761,f the 
following account of the Sultans of Sulu which he had seen; 
Oranky Ogu was grandfather to Bahatol [or Bahalatol, as these 
notes call him] and must have been considerably above 100 years 
of age, as his grandson Bahatol, was reckoned to be 90 years old. 
Sultans of Sulu . 
Marahom Bongso. 
Sultan Jal Alodin or Bactial. 
Sitecabil, a female. 
Saha-Boddin,........ son of Bactial. 
3 ual Pallawan,. Boddin’s brother. 
Mahomed Badorodin,. Bactial’s illigitimate son by a 
Tirun woman. 
Mahomed Nassarodin, grandson to Sahaboddin by his 
mother. 
Mahomed Allimodin, ) 
Mahomed Mo-i-Jodin j 
Badarodin’s sons. 
“ Sitecabil reigned four or five years ;l her mother was sister to 
Bactial, and her father Bartammy, Rajah of Boyhan on Magin- 
danao; Sahabodin was young when she reigned; she married a 
Rajah of Ilanon. 
* Here it may not be amiss to correct an error of some Spanish'writers, who 
confounding Jolo or Sulu with Jilolo, say the Sultan of it, united with the Spaniards 
and Tidore against Ternate and the Portuguese, so early as 1526, A.D. 
t The notes do not mark the month or year, but it must be August 1761, for the 
only Saturdays, on which the 8th of the month fell, from 1761, when I first visited 
Sulu, to 1764, when I was last there: were August 1761, May 1762, January and 
October 1763, and September and December 1746. In May 1762, I was at Madras. 
In January 1763 at anchor off Pandukon. In October 1763 at Manila: In Sep¬ 
tember 1764, on the passage from Balambangan to Sulu, and in December 1764 in 
China. A.D. 
+ Another Report said 7 years. 
