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Updated: June 11, 2025
I went to the encyclopædia and found that the name of the knife was spelled kris and pronounced creese. The day-dreams which seemed impossible in the days of Monteith's Geography have since been realized.
I've seen it before. Talk quick, now!" "You savvee dat fella got creese? All right. I send um knife, eh? Big fella man give it knife to me. You no bodder, Tuuan. You no kill, eh? Give it knife. I want um." The clawlike hand reached down insistently. "I tell you no bodder. I Gordon man. Gordon he Houten man. You Houten man too, eh? An' Houten he all right fine fella. You no 'fraid, Tuuan.
Just in time he leaped aside and avoided a flying creese that shot from the outflung brown hand of a fallen Malay. And, sticking in the man's naked back, between the shoulder blades, was the haft of a heavy throwing-knife similar to that which had so narrowly missed his own head on board the Barang. He savagely stirred the dead man with his foot and rolled the body over, face up.
The boys, and some of the girls, picked up the clams, until they had a half-bushel basket full. Tony Creese, the black man who did odd jobs, was to drive down for the "freight;" but he seemed in no hurry. Some of the boys went in swimming; and Janey Odell did wish she had brought another frock along. She could swim very well. They waded instead.
"It looks some grim," Sergeant Terry admitted, wrapping his left hand where a creese had made a gash. "But what are we here for, and why are we soldiers, if this sort of thing doesn't appeal to us?" "I'm afraid you're hopelessly blood-thirsty," smiled Hal. "No; I'm not. I enlisted because I believed I'd like the soldier life, and fighting is the highest expression of the soldier's work."
In his interest he did not note that the Tagalo who had brought him to the shop had left him and was standing on the sidewalk outside. "Are you interested in these creeses?" inquired Cerverra, passing down the shop and pointing to another wall case. The creese is an ancient Malay knife, with a waved, snaky blade a weapon with which the Malay pirates of the past used to do fearful execution.
Potts was the chief witness. He said that he slept in the cabin while the Colonel slept in an inner state-room; that one morning early he was roused by a frightful shriek and saw Uracao rushing from the Colonel's state-room. He sprang up, chased him, and caught him just as he was about to leap overboard. His creese covered with blood was in his hand.
With his foot on the man's neck to keep him down, the engineer then cut with the creese a stout, pliant cane, lifted the wretch to his feet by main strength, and, dropping his weapons to the ground and still retaining his grip upon the fellow's collar, deliberately thrashed him until the cane was split to ribbons and the clothes literally cut from his back, finally dismissing him with a kick which apart from the thrashing it is safe to say, that Malay will never forget so long as his life shall last.
In the first place, Malay pirates did not wear anything, except a kind of short petticoat, and something that flew in the air behind them as they ran. For in the geography-book pictures a Malay was always running amuck, with a creese in his hand, and an expression of frantic rage on his countenance. How could this be a Malay? Perhaps he might have been in fun!
"But I have the creese!" the Skipper protested. "The creese, would you see it? It is in the cabin, behind the door, with other arms of piracy. Still, Colorado, it is of a fact that I was not born in Polynesia, no. As to the fierceness and the cruelty, we shall see, my son, we shall see.
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