They fortify their kampongswith large ramparts of earth, halfway up which they plant brushwood.
We travelled steadily day and night, but stopped at many kampongs to take on more cargo, and an additional tonkang was attached, which relieved some of the congestion on ours.
I prevailed on the "onder" to call the people from three kampongs above, promising presents of rice.
A strange epidemic had lately appeared, and some deaths had occurred in the kampongs of this region.
The larger ones, which appear as crude statues in many kampongs of Southern Borneo, more rarely on the Mahakam, are supposed to be attendants on the souls of the dead and were briefly described in Chapter XII.
At first they were roaming in the mountains, though not conflicting with the Penyahbongs, and later settled in four kampongs which, beginning with the uppermost, at the time of my visit were: 1.
The chiefs from two neighbouring kampongs paid us visits, and they and their men made a somewhat better impression, besides having less skin disease.
Everything they needed came to them of its own accord, and the rajas of the neighbouring kampongswere afraid of her.
Down the river they have a fewkampongs below Long Pangian, in the same vicinity; west of it are a few more, as mentioned in the description of my journey.
In their kampongs a lonely stranger is safe from molestation and a white man travelling with them is far safer than with the Malays.
According to their reports the tribe had recently, at the invitation of the government, left the mountains and formed several kampongs in the western division.
There were twenty men from the kampong eager to accompany me on my further journey, but they were swayed to and fro according to the dictates of the kapala, who was resolutely opposed to letting other kampongs obtain possession of us.
Formerly the kampongselected a kapala for an indefinite period.
Anchoring at night, there are about five days' travel on the majestic river, passing now and then peaceful-looking kampongs where people live in touch with nature.
They dwell en famille in large square houses without windows, in isolated kampongs on the projecting ridges of the mountains.
The idea of keeping the various races to their Kampongs may be contrary to British ideas, but in Java it appears to work satisfactorily enough.
We passed numerous villages, or kampongs as they are called, and many country houses, of good size, lighted up with lamps.
The road led us past numerous kampongs and country houses, all the way being under lofty trees, which were made to arch overhead, and to afford a most grateful shade.
Along the shores of these streams most of the Malay kampongs are built.
The Malays, if they can, build their kampongsnear rivers, and during the day we passed several of these.
There are more than twenty-one thousand Malays on the island, and though their kampongs are mostly scattered among the palm- groves, their red sarongs and white bajus are seen in numbers in the streets; but I have not seen one Malay woman.
In these forest kampongs the children, who are very pretty, are not encumbered by much clothing, specially the boys.
Their kampongs are small, and they have little of the gregarious instinct; they are said to live happily, and to have a considerable amount of domestic affection.
These kampongs have much of the poetry as well as inanity of tropical life about them.
So in the neighborhood of Malacca these kampongs are scattered through the perpetual twilight of the forest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kampongs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
