purse-belt

Updated: May 9, 2025

Then he came forward rapidly, and unstringing the purse-belt from around his waist, he gave it to the man who had fired the shot, in exchange for a promise that not he, but Che’ Bûrok, should have the credit which is due to one who has slain the enemies of the King. Thus it was that Che’ Bûrok was credited, for a time, with the deed, and reaped fair rewards from the Bĕndăhâra and his sons.

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