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"Pretty well all right again, old man?" said Bob, sauntering in one day, to find the ensign reading. "Yes, I'm stronger by a good deal than I was," said Tom Long, holding out his hand. "No more limbings pitched in at the window, eh?" "No," said Tom Long with a slight shudder; "I hope that sort of thing is not going to happen again." "To which I say ditto," said Bob.
The Malay leaped back, tore out his kris, and made at his assailant; but the presented barrels of the two guns kept him back, as they did his companions, who had presented their limbings as their leader drew his kris, while now the girls leaped bravely up, and interposed their bodies between the two youths and the threatened danger.
Several wounds had been received from the limbings, and the men believed that they had pretty well retaliated with the bayonet, but they could see nothing; and checked as they had been, again and again, they were growing disheartened, and thinking what else they could do, when a loud yelling from the prahu, and the reports of several muskets, told of something fresh.
In these dusky corridors were long rattan chairs, divans, and tables covered with refreshments, and along its walls were arranged weapons of war and chase, Japanese suits of straw armor, Javanese shields, and Malay krises and limbings.
The roars came louder and nearer, close up at last, and the Malays seized their limbings, and stood with the keen points advanced towards the entrance; but their leader sulkily rose, took one of the dammar-torches, made it blaze a little, and going boldly towards the door, waited till a snarling roar came close at hand, when he hurled it with all his might in the tiger's direction.
"Got a kris through his shoulder, and thought it was poisoned." "What, the kris? Oh, no. That is nonsense. Our people don't poison their krises and limbings. The Sakais poison their arrows." "The whiches?" said Bob. "The Sakais the wild people of the hills and jungle. Naked wear no clothes." "Yes," said Bob drily. "I knew naked meant wearing no clothes.
"A plaid kilt, like a Scotchman, sir, and they calls it a say rong; and the big swell princes has it made of silk, and the common folks of cotton." "Is this gammon, Dick?" "Not a bit on it, sir. They wears that crease stuck in it; and they carries spears limbings they calls 'em and they can throw 'em a wonderful way." "They poison the kris, don't they, Dick?"
Just then the girls renewed their cries and lamentations, clinging wildly to the youths as if for protection, as half-a-dozen Malays, armed with krises and the long limbings, or spears, that they can use with such deadly force, came running up, and made as if to seize upon the two girls. "Keep off, will you!
The men were steadied in the ranks, and every one was on the alert; but still there came nothing more to cause alarm till they had arrived within half a mile of their landing-place, when, as they were passing through a more open portion of the track, there was a shout, and a shower of limbings came whizzing past them.
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