 There was one unlikely theory based on a story on miscommunication. According to the story, James Brooke arrived in Kuching on his yacht "Royalist". He then asked his local guide about the name of the town. The local guide thinking that James Brooke was pointing towards a cat, and said the word "Kuching". However, ethnic Malays in Sarawak usually refer the name of a cat as "pusak" instead of the Malay word "kucing".
