poiniards

Updated: July 2, 2025

This is the royal salutation. * All the persons present in the palace had their loins covered with gold embroidered cloth and silk, wore poiniards with golden hilts, ornamented with pearls and precious stones, and had many rings on their fingers.

Sir W. H. (William Hood) Treacher - British Borneo: Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo