 During his reign the Muruts or Lun Bawang were brought under Barunai rule by peaceful measures, and the Chinese colony was kept in good humour by the marriage of the Barunai king's brother and successor to the daughter of one of the principal Chinamen.This is an interesting account in many ways, and tallies very closely with what other evidence would lead one to suspect.For there is reason to think that Barunai, before it became Muslim, was a Bisaya kingdom under Buddhist sovereigns and Hindu influence; and nearly all the particulars given with regard to the people of Borneo are true of one or other of the races allied to Bisayas and living near Barunai to-day.