PLATE 1.—SOME OF THE SELANGOR REGALIA.Models, representing part of the regalia of H.H. the Sultan of Selangor—two small drums, the
tufted (cowtail) lances, the trident, the k’ris (dagger) called B’rok Bĕrayun, and the sacred
trumpet (lĕmpiri).Page 40.This trumpet and the drums of the Selangor regalia were kept by the present
Sultan (then Raja Muda, or Crown Prince of Selangor) in a small galvanised iron
cupboard which stood (upon posts about three feet high) in the middle of a lawn
outside His Highness’ “garden residence” at Bandar. His Highness himself
informed me that they had once been kept in the house itself, but when there
they were the source of infinite annoyance and anxiety to the inmates on account
of their very uncanny behaviour!
Drops of perspiration, for instance, would form upon the Trumpet when a
leading member of the Royal House was about to die (this actually happened, as
I was told, at Langat just before the death of Tungku ’Chik, the late Sultan’s
eldest daughter, who died during my residence in the neighbourhood). Then one
Raja Bakar, son of a Raja ʿAli, during the rethatching of the house at Bandar,