The houses of some rich Chinamen in the Kampong Bahru neighbourhood are truly splendid; the most modest ones still have an air of comfort.
Do not all in this kampong know of Pah-Sidin, and what became of him after he had prayed to the evil sprite?
He is believed to have revealed himself to the original Pawang of the village, the mythical founder of the kampong of Nyalas.
The people of the village feasted abundantly-- Jenoh-lah di-makan orang kampong itu.
The specimen was brought to our camp by a local boy who obtained it on a stream that ran through his kampong (village) near our sulap (hut).
I asked, bestowing on him the title the Malays of Kampong Glam had given him as a perpetual reminder of his famous adventure.
Since Baboo had become a hero and earned the appellation of the Harimau-Anak, his vanity directed his footsteps toward Kampong Glam, the Malay quarter of Singapore.
But oftener the government Sikhs had to be appealed to, and Kampong Glam in Singapore searched from the great market to the courtyards of Sultan Ali.
Then all the dogs in the kampong began to bark, and the men rushed down their ladders screaming, "Harimau!
Just where the great river Maur empties its vast volume of red water across a shifting bar into the Straits of Malacca, stands the kampong of Bander Maharani.
Then Busuk and her playmates would fall on their faces, while the holy man sang in a soft, monotonous voice the promises of the Koran, the men of the kampong answering.
So the days were passed in the little kampong under the gently swaying cocoanuts, and the little Malayan girl grew up like her companions, free and wild, with little thought beyond the morrow.
You will be surprised when I tell you that my wife was a Dyak girl and that I took her out of a Kampong fifteen years ago and took her to England.
I had been taking pictures for an hour in this Kampong when six of the most beautiful Dyak girls came in, with great Bamboo water tubes flung over their gracefully strong shoulders.
But go around with me into Kampong and Dessa; let us visit the small huts of the poor submerged tenth, let us listen to their speech, seek out their thoughts.
When we go out alone, we always stop and pay a visit to some of the Kampong houses.
But above all I should like to experience life, as it is lived in Dessa and Kampong among our own people; that has always had a great charm for me.
We go from kampong to kampong to find Massa, but no see him.
Having described where the canoe was to be found, and arranged that as soon as the inhabitants of the kampong had gone to sleep on the following evening, we should start, he took his departure.
Opposite to it is an extensive plain, adorned by numerous elegant mansions; and beyond is the Kampong Glam and Malay town, with the residence of the Sultan of Jahore and his followers.
At last we hear that one tribe, long way off, come to a kampongnear Gunnung Taboor, and carry away many people, and that one white man among them.
I looked around to discover whence it could come, when I saw bright flames bursting forth close below me from some buildings which I recognised as the village or kampong to which I belonged.
The kampong may then have a properly constituted mosque in which every Friday the religious officer recites an oration in praise of God, the Prophet, and his vicegerents, from the steps of a rostrum.
It was a beautiful view at that point, with the lovely river in its windings, and on the top of the steep bank a kampong of largish houses under palms and durions.
We visited yesterday a Malay kampong called Mambu, in order to pay an unceremonious visit to the Datu Bandar, the Rajah second in rank to the reigning prince.
Scarcely any kampong is so small as not to have a mosque.
Each house in the kampong seemed to have all its inmates at home doing nothing but chewing betel-nut.
Near the village of Kampong Glam[2] I observed a poor-looking bungalow, surrounded by high walls, exhibiting effects of age and climate.
From the compact kampong nestling among the trees, the native women, clad in bright coloured sarongs, came with babies, who take to the water as if it were their natural element.
We reached Kampong Toegoe at nine o'clock, refreshed both men and beasts, and harnessed two more ponies with long rope traces to help us to the summit of the Pass, which was reached at eleven o'clock.
After considerable rain the river was high but navigable, and two days' travel brought us to a rather attractive kampong situated on a ridge.
Until recently they had no blians; there were, at this time, two in Tamaloe, one Saputan and one Malay, and the one in the other kampong learned his art from the Saputans.
The kampong was quite large, and although it has been subject to the influence of Malay traders a long time and quite recently to that of a missionary, still the natives offered considerable of interest.
Near the kampong Pendahara, where we camped the first night, were many of the majestic tapang trees which I first noticed on the Barito.
There was a woman kapala in that kampong who lived in a house that hung in the air.
In a kampong I once saw a young gibbon repeatedly descend into a narrow inclosure to tease a large pig confined there.
They travelled far and wide, and finally came to the kampong which they wanted to attack.
After a pleasant drifting down the current of the Kasao River, about noon on April 7 we arrived at Data Láong, a Saputan kampong consisting of three small communal houses.
It may be of some interest to note the usual occurrence of rain at this kampong as gathered from native observation.
The entire kampong was incensed and believed that a bad antoh had ordered the crocodile to commit the evil deed.
A prominent man from another kampong was preparing to make holes through the ears of the kapala, and for a compensation I was permitted to photograph the operation, which is an important one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kampong" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
