 Kanaq people had a very hard to become accustomed to the new conditions of living in camp environment, which led to many people ill and dying.According to the same Williams-Hunt, in 1953 only 40 Kanaq people survived there.Realizing the complete failure of their resettlement policy, the British authorities in 1955 turned the Kanaq people back to Johor, in the same Kota Tinggi District, but several times they had to change their place of residence.