Rigel Kent

It is believed that Nakhoda Nan Intan founded Batu Uban in 1734. It is unclear whether Nakhoda Nan Intan was the same Malay captain who failed to complete the mission assigned to him by Tunku Raden Muhammad (MS 40320/7, f.105). If Nakhoda Nan Intan is indeed Nakhoda Pu Intan, then the Nakhoda who founded Batu Uban would have been a contemporary of the English captain and spoke to him at least once. The site of Dato Keramat appears on a map issued in Singapore to accompany the Singapore and Malayan Directory (1933). It is located at the first quadrant formed by the junction of Dato Keramat Road and Perak Road. The lower right corner of the site was then occupied by a police station, which remains in operation today. This location may mark one of the earliest settlements in Penang (circa 1705), if a description recorded by Saunders (1885) from a Penang Land Office survey register of 1795 ...

I, Francis Light of the Parish of Dallingoo in the County of Suffolk, Great Britain and now residing on Prince of Wales' Island in the East Indies do hereby make this my last Will and Testament and do by these presents revoke all other wills and testaments by me heretofore made. Imprimis I give and bequeath the paddy field situated in Nibong plain and containing 100 orlongs of land or thereabouts together with the houses plantation's implements of husbandry and 40 buffaloes unto Martina Rozells who has cohabited with me since the year 1772 to be by her possessed during her natural life and at her death to be divided equally among her children, if no person born of her body remains at her death it shall be disposed of according to her will. Francis Light and Martina Rozells. We were told by Trapaud (1788) and Tuckey (1815) that Light married a Kedah princess, making him, in effect, ...

Tiada boleh menaruh hamba melainkan semuanya merdeka تياد بوله مناره همب ملاينکن مردهيک Hikayat Abdullah In the 18th century, the problem of runaway slaves was so widespread in northern part of the Strait of Melaka that Francis Light (d. 1794) and Sultan Abdullah (d. 1797) found it necessary to include two dedicated clauses (Articles 3 and 4) when the Anglo-Kedah treaty, five year in the making, was signed at Fort Cornwallis to address the issue in 1791. For instance, in 1788, Light wrote to a certain Dato' Laksamana requesting assistance in locating a missing Siamese slave boy. سورة چيت درفد بيت کورندور فولو فينڠ معلومکن کفد داتؤ لقسمان يڠامت مليا و بعد درايت احوال ادله مستر دينيسين تبس بودق سورڠ لاکي جينس سيم کفد جوتن نام ايتم مک بودق ايت سده لا...

Between 900 and 953, Captain Buzurg ibn Shahriyar, a Persian shipmaster, compiled a collection of sailors’ tales, and among them appears a curious creature named zarāfah زرافة in the story of Lamri لامری (present day Aceh, North Sumatra). For the uninitiated, zarāfah may seem easily identifiable as a giraffe. But a closer reading of ibn Shahriyar’s account quickly reveals a mismatch: the tame diurnal animal bears little resemblance to the beast described in the text. Instead, the creature in question more plausibly corresponds to the Sumatran rhinoceros. The following Persian text can be found in a French translation published in 1883: وحدثنی أن بجزیره لامری من الزرافة ما لا یوصف کبره، و حکِی عن من حدثه من أهل المراکب الذین کسرهم البحر أنهم اضطروا الی المشی من نواحی فنصور الی لامری، و کانوا لا یمشون باللیل خوفًا من الزرافه لأنها لا تظهر بالنهار، فاذا أقبل اللیل ص...