kris-hilts

Updated: January 11, 2026

A few months later, the Pahang Army, albeit sadly reduced by cholera, poured back again across the mountains, the survivors slapping their chests and their kris-hilts, and boasting loudly of their deeds, as befitted victorious warriors in a Malay land.

Sir Hugh Charles Clifford - In Court and Kampong: Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula