A native village in Malaysia

Usage examples of kampong.

For three weeks they stumbled on, searching for a friendly kampong where they might hide.

The guides, anxious to reach the safety of a kampong, urged them constantly to greater speed, for twice they had heard the coughing of tigers--that coughing grunt that chills the blood.

Then Sing Tai returned to the kampong to investigate and to get food if the Japs had left.

Corrie and Sing Tai had found asylum in a remote mountain kampong with Chief Tiang Umar.

They came to the kampong of Hoesin, the chief who had betrayed the van der Meers.

Lieutenant Hideo Sokabe came a few days later to the kampong of Tiang Umar the Chief.

Early the next morning Alam left the kampong to return to his village.

If they would wait in his kampong, he was sure that the youth, Alam, would return, as the Japs had taken him along only to act as interpreter in the villages they might pass through.

The forest ended at the edge of a shallow valley, and the two looked down upon a little kampong scarcely a hundred yards from them.

Bubonovitch and Rosetti, taking advantage of the confusion in the kampong, seized rifles and ammunition from two of the dead soldiers and backed toward the forest, firing as they went.

Jerry had no more than reached the center of the kampong when he saw her fighting at his side.

Only Amat and Lara saw the white girl leave the kampong and enter the forest.

It was located not far from the kampong where Captain Tokujo Matsuo and Lieutenant Hideo Sokabe still held forth, and it was evident that the outlaws were openly collaborating with the Japs.

Motivated by the inherent caution and suspicion of the wild beast, Tarzan moved silently through the trees which encircled the kampong, to assure himself that no enemy lurked there.

Then Tarzan asked what had become of Sing Tai, and was told that he was still in the village but never ventured out in the daytime, which was well, as twice Jap scouting parties had come to the kampong without warning.