They stepped into the canoe; the little girl-daughter came with them; and the Man took his kris—a curving, wavy dagger with a blade like a flame, —and they pushed out on the Perak river.

他们踏上了独木舟；小女儿跟他们一起了。男人拿起他的克里斯——一把弯曲的、波浪形的匕，像火焰——他们在霹雳河上推进。