-:: Confused and incongruous as is the history of the early settlements of the Malays on the Peninsula, which we find narrated in the Sejarah Malayu, or Malayan Annals, we are enabled to gather sufficient to shew that, prior to the emigration of the Malays from Sumatra in A. D. 1160, the more northerly part of the Malayan Peninsula was partially inhabited by Siamese. The Malays pretend to derive the descent of their Sovereigns from Alexander the Great, and trace in a regular line of genealogy, the successive Dynasties and Kings of Hindostan, till the time of Raja SURAN, grandson of Raja SULAN, who reigned in Andam Nagara, and all the lands of the East and West were subject to him. The first place of importance he appears to have reached on the peninsula, was a fort situated on the river Dinding, in the vicinity of Perak. The King extended his conquests to the country of Glang Khian, which, in former times, was a great country, possessing a fort of stone, up to the river Johor. In the Siamese language, this word signifies the Place of the Emerald (Klang Khian). The ancient city of Singapore was established by Raja SANG NILA UTAMA (a descendant of Raja SURAN), who emigrated from the East Coast of Sumatra, it is supposed from the country now known by the name of Siak, which borders on the Menangkabau country. After the destruction of Singapore by the forces of the Raja of Majapahit, then a powerful State on the Island of Java, Raja ISKANDER SHAH founded the city of Malacca. He died in 1274. The conversion of the Malays to Islamism is said to have taken place about the year 1270, in the reign of Raja KECHIL BESAR, who, after conversion, assumed the title of Sultan MUHAMED SHAH. ::-