272 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vot.. IX, 1922.] 
a living person. Thunder (kareh) is said to be the anger of 
hes, 
The rainbow is a path for disease. If people are on a 
journey when a rainbow appears, they stop and build a small 
hut 
All males are circumcised at, or before, the age of 
the same manner as among the Malays, is not so radical. 
The women do not undergo any corresponding rite, 
The Orang Laut of Singapore. 
While recently in Singapore (1921), I paid a short visit 
to the village of Teluk Saga, which is situated off the shore 
of Pulau Brani, and opposite ‘lanjong Pagar Docks. ‘The 
settlement consists of pile-dwellings standing in shallow 
water and its inhabitants are said to be descendants of the 
Orange Laut, or Sea Gypsies, who were almost the only 
inhabitants of Singapore Island at the time of its occupation 
by Raffles. 
My boatman, who himself belonged to the village, 
introduced me to the oldest inhabitant, one Amil bin Onil, 
an aged, but still fairly vigorous, man who told me that he 
was already selling corals to visitors to Singapore when there 
was ‘‘a one-legged Governor ’’ there (Governor Cavanagh 
1861-1867). As he was only a boy at the time, let us say 
present Government offices when Raffles opened the new 
settlement, and that they migrated from there to Teluk Saga 
in Raffles’ time. The head of the tribe at that date was 
, among his people. 
They have, of course, long been converts to Islam. 
The information derived from Amil is largely borne out 
by evidence. to be found in One Hundred Years of Singapore 
(Vol. I, pp. 342 and 343), 
