THE ORANG LAUT ОЕ SINGAPORE. 2471 
The Orang Laut о? Singapore. 
“We tack not now to а Gallang Prow.” Kipling. 
At the time of the occupation of Singapore by the British, 
there were living on the island, then densely afforested, one or 
the Johore Strait. Some 
accounts of these two tribes was published by Logan in Vol. i. of 
Logan’s Journal in 1847, and illustrated by outlines of heads. 
The Kallangs were removed by the Tumunggong of Johore 
from the Kallang river to Pulai River when the island was 
ceded to Britain. They formerly consisted of 100 families, but 
in 1847 the small pox bad reduced them to eight. They were 
said to have lived exclusively in boats, neither building huts nor 
cultivating any plants. Their language at that time appears to 
have been Malay, and neither Mr. Logan nor Mr, Thomson 
‘who described the Orang Selitar were able to elicit any words 
of their original language. these races it is not easy now to 
find any traces, as they have become amalgamated with the 
Malays, adopting not only their language but also their customs 
and religion. Lately however the authors of this pote visited 
ong Roko, on the Kalang river, and made an attempt to 
collect what information was procurable concerning this inter- 
esting people. They were accompanied by Mr. R. H Yapp (of 
Batin Jenang, and an old man named Rabu, together with опе 
or two others, and spent a long time with them in endeavours to. 
