Word: assagai
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Dingaan's treachery was soon punished. Later that year, on Dec. 16, 1838, on the banks of Natal's Blood River, another Voortrekker column, headed by Boer Leader Andries Pretorius, bloodily defeated Dingaan's plume-decked, assagai-hurling horde. Of 12,000 Zulus, more than 3,000 perished. The Boers resolved ever after to celebrate Dec. 16 as a day of thanksgiving...
...revenge in accordance with the instructions of the witch doctor. Years before his hands had been cut off for striking a white man who was ravishing his sister. Impersonal, implacable, patient, he waits the consummation of justice, knowing his thought will eventually bring his enemy within range of his assagai which he has learned to hurl with his feet. He has his revenge...