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NAMES OF PLACES IN SINGAPORE. 
Loyang. “Brass” according to FAVRE. Perhaps the place 
is so called from the colour of the water. 
Pastr Pélékat, 1.e.. Pasir Orang Pelékat) “ele 
Pulicat, the place in India. 
Pasir Ris. Perhaps this is a contraction for Pasir Iris 
(‘‘iris’”’=to shred). I have heard the word pronounced 
as Pasiris by an old resident. 
Pinang Rawang. ‘“Rawang”’ is a “swamp” or ‘quaking 
bo ape 
Pulau ee Chawan. Pulau Ayer Limau. Pulau Ayer 
Mérbau. ‘These three islands are close together. 
“Chawan” is “acup”’ or “basin;  “(Meraanaeis 
a tree (Afzelia palembanica). 
Pulau Blakang Mati=“ dead-back island,” so called from 
the sterility of the soil on the hills. 
Pulau Brant. Properly=‘“ Pulau Ayer Brani,” as it is still 
written on the charts. The island is so called from a 
well at the top of the hill, the water of which was sup- 
posed to have potent qualities. There used to bea 
‘“Kolam,” or tank, formed out of the natural rock on 
the Tanjong Pagar side of the island which received 
the overflow from the well and in which people used 
to bathe. The remains of this tank can still be seen. 
Pulau Bukum. ‘Bukum” is said to be the same as 
“Hukum,’ and there is a tradition that the Raja used 
to try cases in the island, hence the name, probably 
through the intermediate form “ berhukum.” 
Pulau Damar Laut. “Damar Laut” is the tree “Wanea 
russak.”’ “Damar Laut,’ however, is the name also 
given to another tree (Canarium). 
Pulau ‘Fong. “junk Island,’ asmall island of a conical 
shape to the North of Pulau Séking and Pulau Sébdrok. 
The story is that Malay pirates one night attacked a 
Chinese junk, which was anchored where the island now 
is, and just as the Malays got alongside, the Nakhodah 
of the junk awoke. On seeing the pirates, through ter- 
ror, he uttered such a frightful yell that the sea-spirit 
turned the junk into an island much to the consterna- 
