"In addition to the bow and arrows they carry a knife called "kampilan" having a wide-curving blade."
"A dozen pirates were on the deck, and even as I let fly again I saw Witherspoon cut down by a gross yellow genie with a kampilan."
"And here now was Szu-Zhan of the glorious height and colossal thews - when I thought of the strength that could drive a kampilan through a stout human body from fifteen feet, I felt a trifle apprehensive."