Literary usage of Assagais
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Native Races of South Africa: A History of the Intrusion of the by George William Stow (1905)
"... armed with javelins or assagais and immense shields cut from an entire ox hide.
... with large oval shields and short broad-bladed stabbing assagais, ..."
2. Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus in Their Own Words by Henry Callaway (1868)
"They said, " Come down, that we may kill you." He descended to the ground.
They told him to stand apart from the cattle, that the assagais might not pierce ..."
3. The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World by John George Wood (1882)
"Two soldiers are plucking out of the ground the assagais thrown by their antagonists,
... The rapidity with which the assagais are snatched from the sheaf, ..."
4. The Essential Kafir by Dudley Kidd (1904)
"The graceful " buck " impaled themselves en assagais, and fell dead or dying.
I never saw such an utterly disgusting sight in all my life, and had to turn ..."
5. Travels in South Africa, Undertaken at the Request of the London Missionary by John Campbell (1822)
"They put the assagais by his side, that when he arises he may have something to
defend himself with, and procure a living; but, if they hate the dead person ..."
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