Word: tribesmen
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...knowing the breaking point of his own men. In a tight spot, he could pick up a broadsword and lead a charge with the doughtiest of his centurions. He never killed for fun, but he killed wholesale. Many Romans were shocked when his legions slaughtered 430,000 Germanic tribesmen in one day, when their envoys were actually in Caesar's camp seeking peace. Five years later, the Senate, pushed by Pompey, ordered Caesar to lay down his command; instead, Caesar crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome...
...Ruark is revolting in his anatomical accounts of Mau Mau barbarity, he runs amuck with his stories of the white man's revenge. When the white "commandos" catch the tribesmen, it is literally an eye for an eye. The hero himself cuts off one man's genitals, hacks out another's tongue, and, pinning a Mau Mau woman to the ground, tries unsuccessfully to get her to talk by dropping a two-foot snake upon her genitals. Finally Peter says: "I have shot only wart hogs and camp meat, so to speak . . . Now I want...
...Chitor. In the great plain below the landship fortress, their 4,000 bullock carts were drawn up in huge circles like the covered wagons of American pioneers. Over their wagons flew tattered Rajput sun flags (symbolizing the god Rama) and banners reading, "Hail Emperor Nehru." Few of the tribesmen had ever heard of Prime Minister Nehru, but they knew that a great badshah (ruler) had offered to succor them at Chitor, a place they had always avoided in their wanderings...
...farm apprentice. He carved out a farm from the virgin bush, and now owns 1,200 acres of asparagus, pyrethrum (a plant from which insecticides are made) and dairy-cattle country in the lush Subukia valley. In World War II, he molded a pioneer battalion of brawny East African tribesmen into a crack combat unit, led them through the Ethiopian campaign. Blundell's business connections (breweries, newspapers, canneries) and his bluff man-to-man likableness soon won him the job of leader of the white settlers in the Kenya legislature...
...spirit world an oracular directive on tribal policy. Hunter-Hero Pierre de Beauvilliers suspects a sinister hand when a Negro clutching a flamingo feather (the summons to a dream powwow) is murdered. Pierre gets on the scent like a pointer, and soon every trail is dotted with silent tribesmen padding to the rendezvous where the dream (a Commie plant) will be revealed and a huge arms cache is to be doled out. Author van der Post writes beautifully about the African landscape, and intelligently about the Reds' dangerous ability to poison man's dreams. Flamingo Feather...