He caught up his shield and sprang to his feet, with the assagais trembling in his big hand, looking as if he could be a terrible adversary in a close conflict, though helpless against modern weapons of war.
But you'll have to lend me one of your assagais till I can get a rifle.
At last it came as he sat there with his shield on one side, his assagais on the other; and, to my surprise, he took up the big stabbing weapon and one of the light throwing-shafts before touching me on the chest with a finger.
A very poisonous plant grows on the flats, from which the natives extract, from the seed, poison to put on their assagais and arrows.
The course which I thought best to take was to sit on my front waggon-box and smoke my pipe; time after time hundreds surrounding my waggon, raising their assagais as if to hurl them at me, and brandishing their kerries.
All the women and children kept to their huts, the men assembled quite in a nude state, except a small cloth in front, and were armed with assagais and knobkerries.
The Kafirs had already killed every man of the party--having come on them unawares and thrown their assagais with fatal precision from the bushes.
The words had scarce left his lips when a host of some hundreds of Kafirs, with the shields, assagais and feathers of savage warriors, burst out of the hollow referred to.
He thought of making a dash and giving the alarm, but the watchful savages at his side seemed to divine his intentions, for they grasped their assagais with significant action.
Seizing the assagais of these, they rushed through the midst of their foes, and, as if animated by one mind, made for the homestead below.
She had barely found refuge in this place, when several assagaiswhizzed over their heads.
Sheltering themselves behind stones, Hans and Considine looked eagerly in the direction whence the assagais had been thrown, and the former observed the ears of a horse just appearing over a bush.
Then he whispered to two men, who quietly took their assagais and stationed themselves one on either side of their white prisoner--for such he really was.
As it was, the savages came at them with dauntless courage, throwing their assagais when near enough, and hurling stones down from the almost perpendicular cliffs on either side.
Regardless of severalassagais that whizzed close to them, they galloped hither and thither among the bushes, but without success.
I fear the white man's drink more than the assagaisof the Matabili, which kill men's bodies.
The assagais came like a hailstorm upon the unfortunate Boers.
He kicked up his heels, ran, and jumped, all the time flourishing his assagais and shield in such a manner that I should have felt my head in danger had I been in close proximity to him.
I have said that I cast one of my assagais only occasionally.
Looking down, I perceived that the hunters were approaching the edge of the bush, which yet concealed them, wriggling through it like snakes, with their assagais ready to hand.
Like monkeys, they dodged about him, darting their assagais at every opportunity that presented itself, while I from my vantage-ground hurled one now and then with all the force I could command.
The next moment some twenty assagais shot with unerring aim through the air, and penetrated the animal's thick leather-like hide.
One night the docile aborigines fell upon him while he was asleep in his hammock, and left mementos of their presence in the shape of thirty-seven assagais stuck decoratively in various parts of his body.
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