Hang Nadim
According to the Malay Annals, there was a time when the villages along the coast of Singapore suffered vicious attacks from a school of swordfish. On the advice of a particularly astute boy named Hang Nadim, the ruler of Singapore built a barricade made of banana stems along the coast, which successfully trapped the attacking fish by their snouts as they leap from the waters. In the revised edition of the Sejarah Melayu by A Samad Ahmad, the boy was not named.
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