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.

他了独木舟；小女儿跟他一起了。男人拿起他克里斯——一把、波浪形匕首，刀刃像火焰——他在霹雳河推进。