ooh-h-h

Updated: July 27, 2026

At the end of a grassy stretch of country was a village surrounded by a thick grove of coconut and betel-nut palms, and some of the enemy's scouts had been seen, and we heard their distant war-cry, a prolonged "ooh-h-h, ah-h-h," which was particularly thrilling, uttered as it was by great numbers of voices.

H. Wilfrid Walker - Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines