In 1612, at the request of Raja Abdullah to pen the Malay Annals to ensure " ... all the adat, the rules and the ceremonies of the Malay Sultans and Rajas to be heard by our descendants and is made known all utterances so that it may benefit them".
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Another view is given by a zoologist John Harrison who speculated that the animal was either the Golden Cat, based on his study of clues from the Malay Annals.