Curiosities of the Past

Sometimes the past throws rather alarming things at you:

"Moreover there is a fossil of burnt human bones left by the Malayan cannibals of the Mesolithic Age displayed in [sic] Singapore National Museum." -- Hsu Yun-Tsiao, JMBRAS 45.I.1-9.

and

"There is the record of a sea-gypsy [i.e. Orang Laut] who from his boat in the Singapore River watched Raffles arrive and was still there 60 years later; still a fisherman, still with no home but his canoe. In the happenings that had turned his solitude into a busy port he had taken no part whatever." -- R.J. Wilkinson, JMBRAS 13.II.17-21.