Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1893 — The Sultan of Johore. [ARTICLE]

The Sultan of Johore.

A little party of Americans have paid a visit to the'Sultan of Johore. and one of their number has given an account of their expedition from Singapore, which presents some picturesque details. The hospitable Sultan sent out his state barge, manned with Malays in canary-col-ored suits' to meet them, and at the landing pier they were received by “the Illustrious Secretary of the Sultan,” whose title and name are “Date (Lord) Abdull Rahman.’,’ He is a Commander of the English Order of St. George and St. Michael, and is stated to speak Malay, Chinese, English, French and German with equal fluency. The Sultan, who is said to have inherited the other day from the late Sultana “a million and a hall of this world’s goods,” appears from this narrative to be a prosperous person. The hall, approached by a marble reception-room, in which the company were entertained at a banquet, is described as 150 feet in length. Every article of the service for seventy persons and sixteen courses was of gold, and one course wa> served on “the celebrated Ellenborough plate.” At the table the Sultan remarked: “We are all temperance folk in this Mohammedan country. See, all I drink is pineapple juice.” His guests gazed about the table and found that the foreigners were the only persons who were drinking wines provided for them. It is a noteworthy fact that the subjects of this Malay Sultan, of the Sultan State, are principally Chinese. They are, it is stated, allowed to come to Johore and settle on the best pieces of land they can find unoccupied.