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 310 HISTORY OF THE PROPAGATION hunaUy abbreviated Susunan, and Sunan, which, no matter its literal signification, meant, in its early use, apostle, but when assumed by the temporal so- vereigns, two centuries afterwards, is more appro- priately explained by the word Caliph, as it was applied to the temporal and spiritual successors of Mahomet. Among the wives of Browijoyo was a Chinese, or more probably the Creole descendant of a man of that nation, whose hjstory is by the native writers connected with the introduction of the Mahome- dan religion. This woman was repudiated by the Javanese monarch, when pregnant ofRaden Fatally and made over to the chief of Falembang, An/a Damar, said to have been Browijoyo's own son. Raden Fatah, when he grew up, accompanied by Raden Husen, a real son of Arya Damar, by the same mother, came to Java, both converts to the Mahomedan religion. Raden Fatah assumed the character of a zealot and a devotee, but Raden Husen contented himself with temporal advan- tages, and the promotion he received at the court of his grandfather, where he was raised to the rank of adipati, or governor of the district of Trung, and in due time even intrusted with the command of the army, which afterwards encountered the forces of thefaithjid. Raden Fatah settled in the district of Damak, or Bintoro, where he was permitted to reside,