After then becoming driven into exile by the Javanese, he usurped manage about Temasek. By 1860 the inhabitants had swelled to around 80,000, additional than half getting Chinese. Between 5,000 and 25,000 ethnic Chinese people were killed in the subsequent Sook Ching massacre. Prior to Raffles' arrival, there have been only about a thousand people living on the island, mainly indigenous Malays along with a handful of Chinese.