Note 272 — Chapter IX

The chopper is called anánun (confusion or badness), wá (doing), and hwisu (knife-sword, or dagger); meaning, the “cutting badly knife.” Strangers call it the blue-knife. It is a top-heavy blade four spans long, bluff and broadening to one palm at the end like the old Turkish falchion, and narrowing to two fingers at the hilt. The form is by no means so exaggerated as the wonderful chopping-knives of the Gold Coast. Down the centre runs a broad line, depressed and not polished like the back and edge. These knives, being royal gifts, may not be bought.