Then the eyes roamed about the campong to rest at last upon the slanting roof of the thatched shed which was its shelter.
By boring a hole in the partition wall separating their campong from the inner one he had disclosed to the horrified view of his men the fearsome brutes harbored so close to them.
At the same moment von Horn was leading Virginia Maxon farther and farther from the north campong where resistance, if there was to be any, would be most likely to occur.
You have seen the creatures in the campong next to yours?
As von Horn stepped into the campong his quick eye perceived the havoc that had been wrought with the roof at the east end of the shed.
It was the first great storm of the breaking up of the monsoon, and under the cover of its darkness Sing Lee scurried through the monster filled campong to the bungalow.
I will go and have a talk with him later," said von Horn, "so if you hear us moving about in the workshop, or even out here in the campongthink nothing of it.
As Professor Maxon entered the house von Horn returned to Virginia and suggested that they take a short walk outside the campong before retiring.
Virginia Maxon, idling beneath the leafy shade of the tropical foliage, became presently aware that she had wandered farther from the campong than she had intended.
In the bungalow within the north campong Sing and Number Thirteen had lifted Professor Maxon to his bed, and the Chinaman was engaged in bathing and bandaging the wound that had left the older man unconscious.
Professor Maxon and von Horn walked over to the workshop and the inner campong to ascertain what damage had been done there.
To leave them here in the campong would mean the immediate death of Professor Maxon and the Chinaman.
It was such a pack of scoundrels that Bududreen led toward the north campong to bear away the treasure.
The campong is a little republic in itself, and Ah Sing is the man that runs it.
But in the Chinese campong they're about as much use as a landlubber aloft in a blow.
The whole six would want to be back at the campong at sunset.
More to the south, near Campong Tchnam, the village where the custom-house of Cambodia is erected, is an island called Isle of Thiames.
This Christian campong stands in the midst of palm and forest trees; and the situation is altogether very rural and pleasant.
Toward midnight, on the twenty-eighth of July, as the moon was gently sinking behind the mountains which overlook the campong of Angier, a light land-breeze suddenly sprung up.
He had been expected for some months, and a house was preparing for him by the very respectable Mr. Silveiro, the Portuguese consul at Cokai, near a campong of Burmese.
They live alone with an old woman in a house outside Lakamba's campong and are greatly respected--or feared, I should say rather.
Is there not one torch in rich Lakamba's campong to light a guest on his landing?
Bertie Hilton Chumbley, Rajah of Campong Selah," said the elder--a handsome little boy in a brilliant silken sarong.
In this intent the boat was steadily propelled up-stream, and at the end of the second day the Inche Maida's campong and home had been passed, and unseen they had placed some miles between them and the Princess's people.
Often in former year, when strolling along the Campong Glam in Singapore, I have thought how wild and ferocious the Bugis sailors looked, and how little should like to trust myself among them.
Having sent the Pangerans ahead to advise Seriff Sahib of our arrival, we pulled slowly up to the campong of the Data Jembrong, where we brought up to breakfast.
The people who had scattered at the close of the war have been collected, and are building their houses a short way up the river at the Campong Jekiso, which, when finished, will be a neat-looking village.
There is neither campong nor sampan upon the river, and it is evident that there is no trade.
So the two nagas floated gently down the stream in the afternoon, reaching the campong at last; but they went down so leisurely that it was dark when they reached the jetty, shouting and beating a gong to announce their return in triumph.
The people of the campong were all en fete, and the place was given up to rejoicings as they began to realise that new days were in prospect, and a man might call his life his own.
Afterwards the happy pair went down the river and along the coast to Malacca to spend their honeymoon; while Ned Murray stayed at the campong to look after the specimens and enjoy himself to his heart's content.
There needs no telling how, as soon as the rajah's ally had gone, the campong settled down to its everyday life, but that life grew more and more new.
It must beCampong Bukit, and that is one of the rajah's boats.
Then Pata Matara's sister fled from the campong and went to live in the Dutchman's house.
When his sword was carried into a campong in advance of his coming, the maidens whispered wonderingly under the fruit-trees, the rich men consulted together in the shade, and a feast was made ready with rejoicing and songs.
Without a thought for the helpless boy, the women dropped the torches and fled screaming through the night, leaving the campong in darkness.
The prisoner in the desertedcampong protested and struggled, its ugly grunts disturbing the jungle peace.
They also built the walls of the reclamation works along the sea front, now known as Collyer Quay, and above referred to, and the river wall at Campong Malacca.
Under Mr. Coleman the public roads on the sea front were marked out and constructed, and also the main road from the town to Campong Glam, now known as North and South Bridge Roads.
She left the crowd by the riverside, and wandered aimlessly among the empty houses, resisting the impulse that pushed her towards Almayer's campong to seek there in Nina's eyes the secret of her own misery.
I have only one eye, but I saw lights in Abdulla's house and in his campong as we were paddling past.
Drop down to the jetty and let your men cook their rice in my campong while we talk in the house.
She came out at the back of the house, where a narrow ditch, full of stagnant water that overflowed from the river, separated Almayer's campong from the rest of the settlement.
The next morning they anchored about ten o'clock opposite the campong of the rajah.
Davis and two other sailors always accompanied them, as the captain's orders were strict that no officer or man should go outside the limits of the campong unless accompanied by two armed seamen.
In a hot country like this I want my men to have good, pure, sparkling well water, and not to be forced to drink croc and campong drainage soup.
The parade-ground remained deserted for quite an hour, and then some of the campongpeople had regained sufficient courage to begin dribbling back, to be followed by a few of the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages.
We shall be at the campong in five minutes, and in less than another on the parade-ground.
But what's the good of doing it with only the people of the campong to look on?
You see, once aboard that, all we have to do is to let it float down till we come to Campong Dang.
And you might make the campong people illuminate all their boats on the river," said Archie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "campong" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
