Raffles Museum

Another Chinese tradition, which probably has no connection with the previous one is that the Butterworth cannon belonged to ‘Panglima’ (Warrior) Ah Chong a bravo of the Inter-Chinese wars which took place in the Larut tin fields in 1862, and lasted sporadically for ten years. “This warrior turned into a crocodile on his death and this crocodile is now the biggest stuffed crocodile in Raffles […]