Kerajaan Padang

John Anderson, tentang Kuala Padang
menulis: "a considerable sized river. This is an independent state.
Radja Bidir Alum, the present chief, has reigned nineteen years. His son is
Radja Muda Etam. The two principle villages are Bandar Khalifah, containing 500
inhabitants, and Bundar Dalam, 600 Malays. There are about 3000 triebe Kataran
in the country. The first village is half a tide up."