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.

踏上了独木舟；小女儿一了。男的克里斯——一把弯曲的、波浪形的匕首，刀刃像火焰——在霹雳河上推进。