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Updated: May 22, 2025
We left Batu Puteh in Richardson's canoe early one morning, and, although we had a strong stream with us going down, we did not reach Bilit till evening. Bilit is a large village made up of Malays, Orang Sungei, and Sulus. Quite a crowd met us on our arrival, and they seemed not a little excited.
"That was quite right," they said; "his time had come, and, besides, it had been foretold that he would die if he tried to go to Mecca again." Two men were most anxious to gain favour with Richardson viz., the dead man's son and another Hadji, who was the richest man in Bilit, and who had a large share in the Gomanton caves.
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