assagais

Between these sinister relics hung African shields of hide and bamboo, crossed with assagais and war daggers.

The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

He then recounted the history of killings since 1984, saying that by August 1990, 6000 people had died in killings that involved axes, assagais, pangas and kieries.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

Having knee-haltered our horses, we set to work with our knives and assagais to prepare the skull for the hatchet, in order to cut out the tusks, nearly half the length of which, I may mention, is imbedded in bone sockets in the fore part of the skull.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

But after all it was assagais against machine guns, and the Zulus were finally defeated at Ulundi, July 4, 1879.

The Negro 1915

Of course, when in actual conflict, I wanted this black horde wiped off the face of the earth; but when I saw boys and girls, ranging from six to ten years of age, approaching the phalanx of British bayonets with their little assagais ready to do battle, I was thrilled with admiration for them.

From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910

I went in amongst them and ordered them to lay down their assagais.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

The lookout officer reported to me that about one hundred Kafirs were coming towards the camp in a friendly manner and without assagais, so off I started with my orderlies to meet them, making sure they were from Hintza.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

I expected to feel a hundred assagais at me in a moment, but all the Kafirs had gone down into the river.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

Upon my word, I never saw anything so fine as my fifty Fingoes, all with their assagais and their shields, and singing as they marched along, all aroused as if the blood of their forefathers was flowing through their veins, when their nation was independent and important amongst the other savages.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

The Boers of the old Commandos talk of the glories of former times, when the Kafirs had only assagais.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903