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 dencies regard their rights as by no means dependent on such letters-patent, though both one and the other set some value on them as an embellishment of their rank.

Before leaving the subject of the relation of the ulèëbalangs to the



sultanate, which will be dealt with more fully when we come to speak of the sultans themselves, we must make one or two remarks on the confederacies of the ulèëbalangs. We have seen that Acheh proper, outside the limits of the actual sultanate, is divided into three sagòës (sagis) or "angles", each of which is composed of a certain number of mukims whence they derive their names viz. Dua plōh dua (the XXII Mukims), Dua plōh nam (the XXVI Mukims) and Teungòh lhèë plōh