Word: mahasari
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...Highness Padukka Mahasari Manaluna Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram II, Sultan of Sulu, gave up the ghost last June. Only independent sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag for some years, he had legally surrendered his sovereignty in recognition of his place as head of the Moslem Church in the Philippines. He had a pension from the Philippine Government, a $5,000 annual tribute in the form of land rent from the British North Borneo Company and he was in fact the leader of 500,000 warlike Moros who have always despised their neighbors, the Filipinos, have never been licked...
Grave anxiety in the Philippine Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes was a matter Don Manuel did not mention. Nine days prior, from Jolo in the Sulu Archipelago, His Highness Padukka Mahasari Manaluna Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram II, Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo, Judge of Agama, lineal descendant of the Prophet, had ascended to enjoy the limitless quantities of gold, jewels, silks, dates, rice, spitted lamb and beautiful women which await the Faithful in the Mohammedan Paradise. The Sultan, who for some years was the only sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag, lived on the tribute...
...Highness Padukka Mahasari Manulana Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram, 67-year-old Sultan of Sulu, ruler in the 25th generation of a dynasty which claims descent from Alexander the Great, titular head of all the Moslems of the Sulu Archipelago and British North Borneo, onetime suitor of "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, only Mohammedan autocrat under the U. S. flag, lost his seat in Philippine Senate when Governor General Frank Murphy failed to reappoint...
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