BY A. E. LAWKEAA E. 
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leaders decided to go up river and find out who had 
planted those bananas, and paddling inland for some 
time, came across a large Milano village, finding 
several more later on. The Bintulu people would 
seem to have been shyer and wilder than other coast 
Milanos, for whenever the Bruneis came near a village 
to land, all the inmates took to the jungle. However the 
Brunei people gradually coaxed them back and gained 
their friendship by presents and other means, finally 
making them subjects of Alak Betatar, and appointing 
a man to rule over the district, which before had been 
divided up among several petty chiefs, each holding 
his own village. 
The district of Matu, from the Igan to Rejang mouth, 
is said to have been gained by Brunei at about this 
period too, but I have not yet gained any information 
as to the method by which it was subdued. 
Tugau, Busui, Kedahat, and probably the lesser chiefs 
also, were allowed to go on ruling their people as de¬ 
pendants of Brunei, on condition that they acknow¬ 
ledged Alak Betatar as their supreme ruler and paid 
him a yearly tribute. Later on, when Brunei had be¬ 
come a Mohamedan state, the native Milano chiefs 
were replaced by Pangirans from Brunei, who very 
generally married into the families of the men they 
superseded. 
Shortly before Mukah came under the Sarawak flag, 
the story geos that Pangiran Ursat and Pangiran Ma- 
thusin both of that place, had a, serious quarrel which 
originated from two of these mixed marriages. 
Busui, as mentioned above, was the last native 
Milano ruler of Mukah. His wife was a daughter of 
Tugau. The first Brunei Pangiran to rule Mukah is 
said to have married a daughter of Busui by this wife. 
Pangiran Ursat rvas descended from this marriage. 
Now Busui had once made a raid on Bintulu, defeated 
Lungah one of the chiefs there, and taken his sister, 
Him, back to Bintulu, where she became Busui’s con¬ 
cubine. By Busui Ilim had six children, one of whom, 
a daughter, married Pangiran Mathusin’s ancestor. 
Pangiran Mathusin is said to have asked Pangiran Ursat 
for the hand of one his daughters in marriage, and been 
