I spend the night besides the tombstone inside Masjid (mosque of) Kota Lama Kanan some 3 km or so across the Perak river from the town of Kuala Kangsar...
In the mosque's compound are many old graves and this old cannon...
Here is a look at the mosque...
And a last look at the tombstone inside before starting the day's journey. For information the tombstone is erected inside the mosque to mark the spot where Sultan Mansur Shah, the second ruler of Perak who lived in the 17th Century was said to have vanished without a thrace after conducting the Jumaat prayer there...
I walked out from the mosque heading back towards Kuala Kangsar and snapped pictures along the way...
Then it's time to get on the Sultan Abdul Jalil bridge...
The bridge seen from the sides...
And Bukit Chandan seen from the bridge...
After getting across, I came across this quite interesting old Malay building at the Jalan Daeng Selili/ Sultan Abdul Jalil bridge junction...
I head for the town centre and saw the burial site reserved for the family of Temenggong Wan Hassan, a Perak noblemen of 19th Century or so...
Took this picture of the intersection between Jalan Maharajalela and Jalan Laksamana named after two noble titles of Perak... I found it fascinating as I know for a fact that the first Maharajalela who is Daeng Selili and the first Laksamana who is Raja Mahkota Nakhoda Hitam (both lived during the time of Sultan Muzaffar Shah III, the 13th ruler of Perak sometime in the 18th Century) are actually brothers, a fact that very few people know or care to know...
A jetty off the Perak river...
Then I saw this interesting mosque across the river. The story has been told in Masjid (mosque of) Sayong, Kuala Kangsar ...
A view of Sultan Abdul Jalil bridge...
Staircase leading to a bridge across one of the tributaries of Perak river...
View from a jetty...
And this... This is my way of telling enough of this particular story... On to another one... :]
I wish I could find more about my ancestor Daeng Selili@Sedeli. I read a lot about him through internet,words from my relatives and salasilah keturunan (family tree)I got from my uncle. My late father never talked about his ancestor although his mother's family periodically made 'special ceremonies'for their ancestors. I was not so sure for what but my mum said so called'for the sake of our descendants'.She strongly objected the ceremony but kept it to herself only. Well, only to Allah kita memohon perlindungan....
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