Crossword-Solution: RONGS 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Silk _sârongs_, in close imitation of those woven in Pahang and Kelantan, are made cheap, and sold as the genuine articles.

They came, as is the manner of their people, laden with heavy packs of _sârongs_,--the native skirts or waist-cloths,--trudging in single file through the forests and through the villages, hawking their goods to the natives of the place, with much cunning haggling or hard bargaining.

They sit huddled up in the stern, with their _sârongs_ drawn high about their shoulders, under the shadow of the palm-leaf sail, which shows dark above them in the faint light of early morning.

Around the fire, and reddened by its light, sat or lay my three Malays, bare to the waist, but clothed in their bright _sârongs_ and loose short trousers.

But still less can I consent to set aside every phenomenon which I cannot explain, with the common resource,--"Pooh! pooh! there must be some mistake!" Rather would I say, "There must still be some ignorance in me: near as I have reached to the summit of the ladder of knowledge, there must be still one or two rongs to be mounted before I can proclaim my mastery of all, absolutely _all_, the occult causes of things.