The Empire-grabbing reasons for being there may have been dubious, but I always think of the ordinary soldier, thousands of miles from home, in the fierce heat, listening to the menacing buzz of 4,000
assegais in the distance, beating against ox-hide shields as the Zulus advanced.
The two lions,
Assegai and Tsavo, are both four-year-old males.
Tsavo and his brother
Assegai are the star acts at Peter Jolly's Circus.
Officials also failed to acknowledge the power of Zulu warriors with their
assegai (long thrusting spears).
"Without a word, he took my foreskin, pulled it forward, and then, in a single motion, brought down his
assegai. I felt as if fire was shooting through my veins, the pain was so intense that I buried my chin into my chest.
Elsie was not happy about living so far from civilisation, bearing the scars from a Zulu
assegai attack in South Africa.
I dance wildly inside myself; I yell within, I whoop; I shake my
assegai (33) above my head, I hurl it true to the mark yeeeeooww!
He had seen that the traditional type of spear, a long-handled known as
assegai thrown from a distance, was not the best for the regulated fighting in close formation he introduced and therefore replaced it with iklwa, a short stabbing spear with a long, sword-like spearhead.
Its warriors were armed with
assegai thrusting spears, man-sized cowhide shields, clubs, and throwing spears.
- The one RC hole drilled at the
Assegai prospect, which returned no significant intercepts, and
"I had three
assegai wounds, two in the right side and one in the left but after a long time of fighting at the door we made them retire, and then we made our escape out of the building.