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  • Sungei Pĕrópok. "Pĕrópok"="brambles," "thorns."
  • Sungei Ponggol. "Ponggol"="a stump of a tree" especially a high stump." Compare "Púnggor." It has been suggested to me that the word is Tamil (Ponkal, "the feast of the boiling rice," celebrated when the sun enters the sign of Capricorn), but the word is clearly Malay and not Tamil.
  • Sungei Sa-rímbun. "Rimbun" is "luxuriant," "in great quantity, ", "thick."
  • Sungei Sělétar. A tribe of the Orang Laut (Orang Sělétar), who formerly lived there, took its name from the river. See Journal Indian Archipelago, Vol. I, p. 302.
  • Sungei Tampínes. "Tampínes" is the well-known timber tree (Sloetia sideroxylon).
  • Sungei Téban. "Téban"="to bet," "to stake an equal amount."
  • Sungei Tĕmbuan. "Tĕmbuan" or "Tĕbuan"="a hornet."
  • Sungei Tĕngek. "Tĕngek"="the rank smell of things cooked in oil and kept a long time."
  • Sungei Tuas. "Tuas"="to chop in two pieces," also to raise by leverage," "to support."
  • Tanjong Awar or Aur. "Awar" (Aur) is the large kind of bamboo (Dendrocalamus). This is the point known as St. James' in the New Harbour.
  • Tanjong Malang, or "Malay Spit." "Malang" in navigation means "a black rock," and the name is given to the patch of rocks running out to seaward from Fort Palmer. This is the place where Sir Stamford Raffles hung in chains the body of Syed Yasin, the man who stabbed Colonel Farquhar, the story of which is told by Abdullah in his "Hikaiat."
  • Tanjong Mĕngkúang. "Mengkúang" is the well-known thorny plant out of which kajangs and mats are made.
  • Tanjong Mĕrawang. "Měrawang" means "ragged," "full of holes" and the point is so called from its appearance. The word is derived from "Rawang," "a bog." This point is wrongly marked both in the charts and the Government Map (1885). In the charts Tanjong