GLOSSARY

MILITARY

Armalite	5.56mm calibre light automatic rifle.
Basha	Hut or makeshift shelter.
Belt	Carried essential shortterm equipment.
Bergen	Main pack.
Claymore mine	Dished canister firing 900 steel shot in a cone.
L-P	Landing-point for helicopters.
LUP	Lying-up position.
OP	Observation post.
Panji or punji	Concealed sharpened bamboo stakes capable of inflicting serious wounds.
RPD	Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryov. Soviet 7.62mm calibre weapon, commonly called Degtyaryov light machine-gun.
RTU	Returned to unit.
RV	Rendezvous.
Sarbe	Radio search and rescue beacon for homing aircraft.
SLR	7.62mm calibre high velocity self-loading rifle.
SOP	Standard Operating Procedure.

BORNEO

‘Amok’	Run in frenzied thirst for blood.
‘Batu’	Rock, stone.
‘Belukar’	Overgrown ‘ladang’ with thick undergrowth, secondary jungle.
Border tribes:
Iban or Sea Dyak	Sarawak, warrior race.
Kelabit	Sarawak, highlands centred on Ba Kelalan.
Land Dyak	Sarawak, 1st Division.
Murut	Sabah.
Punan	Sarawak, nomadic.
‘Bukit’	Hill.
CCO	Clandestine Communist Organization.
Divisions	Administrative areas of Sarawak instituted by Rajah Brooke.
‘Gunong’	Mountain.
‘Jarit’	Murut delicacy of uncooked pork with salt and rice buried in split bamboo for a month.
‘Kris’	Dagger with sinuous blade.
‘Ladang’	Cleared jungle under cultivation.
‘Padi’	Rice, wet or dry depending on how grown.
‘Parang’	Jungle slashing knife, machete; often decorated with human hair.
RPKAD	Resemen Para Kommando Angaton Darat – Indonesian Para Commando Regiment; an élite unit.
‘Tapai’, ‘Tuak’, ‘Borak’	Raw wine made from fermented rice or tapioca.
TNKU	Tentara Nasional Kalimantan Utara – North Kalimantan National Army. A Brunei-based guerrilla organization opposing Malaysia; launched Brunei Revolt in December 1962.