260 EARLY HISTORY OF SINGAPORE, JOHORE & MALACCA. 
A.D. must have sent yet a further band in the same direction. 
From 1328 down to the death of Hayam Wuruk, the great Maja- 
pahit conqueror, in 1389, the Maillacca Straits would be under 
Javanese influence and only later under the Siamese suzerainty of 
which Chinese annals and Siamese laws speak, 
Such in briefest outline is Rouffaer’s paper, which fills 174 
pages and is to be continued further. 
Though it has no direct bearing on this paper, it is interesting 
to note that Raffles’ Museum has not only a neolithic celt from. 
Singapore but also several from Kota Tinggi in Johore: all made 
from. local stone. 
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Burong olok-olok ( ent ean is the | 
Brown Gannet. 
By AGW. HA miTon: 
Burong olok-olok is mentioned in Wilkinson’s Dictionary as 
an unidentified bird: but in reality the bird is not such a jest as its 
Malayan name would seem to imply, and it has been identified for 
me kindly by Mr. H. C. Robinson, as the Brown Gannet or Sula- 
Silo, \( Mune) = 
The brown gannet or olok-olok as it 1s called in Kedah is a 
dark plumaged sea bird with webbed feet, solitary specimens of 
which are usually met with at sea off the coast of Kedah in company 
with a flock of gulls. 
