Twice have my fleets attacked Selurung, which you style Lusung, and this time I have conquered. The boastful Dato Gambang, your late ruler, lies dead, and a princess from his house shall become a wife of mine to carry on the dynasty of Pasig. Our son will be your lord, and, because you esteem ancient lineage, know that I am descended from the great Iskander, the Alexander of far off Europe, by his queen, the daughter of Porus, most valiant of Hindus, through Sang Sapurba who crossed the sea to Java and whose descendants ruled in Johur whence my great-grandfather, Tuan Alak ber Tatar, stole the princess royal for his bride. And in my veins, from Hassim, runs the Arab blood of the true prophet of the merciful and compassionate God. Chinese blood, too, by a princess of Kina Balu, have I, and for five hundred years have the kings of Brunei worn the imperial yellow by recognition of Tchina's emperor. We have long had as well nobat and bells from Malacca and Menangkabaw, regalia of royalty for Hindu and for Islamite. 


But prouder than of being a king am I of my well-earned title of Nakoda, for none captains better a ship than I and my praus have ridden out the storms in these stormiest of seas, and in blood I boast of being a Bisayan. Though Chinese and Arab heralds appear in my court, its chiefest ornament is the lengthy loin-cloth, the chawat, that forty men always bear aloft before me. When I gird up my loins with it for battle, they are well-girded and the battle is well-fought. 


From Malacca to Maynila men know the name of Nakoda Ragam and dread the man, regardless of my royalty. So do you, men of the Lusung rivers, fail not in your duty -to my future son, your rajah, nor forget to pay yearly a ganta of gold in Brunei, as tribute, since of old yours was the Island of Gold



Source 

Gems of Philippine oratory; selections representing fourteen centuries of Philippine thought, carefully compiled from credible sources in substitution for the pre-Spanish writings destroyed by missionary zeal, to supplement the later literature stunted by intolerant religious and political censorship, and as specimens of the untrammeled present-day utterances, by Austin Craig, page 12-13, University of Manila, 1924.

The beginning of Manila's last royal dynasty