This is a view overlooking Kampong Telok Saga on the north side of Pulau Brani. The waterway between Singapore Island on the north and Pulau Brani on the south was inhabited by Orang Laut, aboriginal Malays from the Malacca Strait and the Riau-Lingga archipelago who had lived in Singapore from at least the beginning of the 16th century. There are also references to them in some of the 17th century accounts, and in accounts by Dr. John Crawfurd and John Finlayson who visited in 1822. While the ‘Orang Laut’ (indigenes) traditionally lived in small boats, by the end of the 17th century, a few had moved into houses. By the time New (Keppel) Harbour was used in 1848, there were at least four Orang Laut villages on different sides of the island.
