Crossword-Solution: ASSAGAIS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The furniture consists of a few mats, several baskets, a milk-pail, a number of earthen pots, a bundle of assagais, and a few other weapons of war.

Directly after, he dashed into a kind of war-dance, advancing, retreating, throwing imaginary assagais at invisible foes, and then coming apparently to close quarters, screening his body with his long elliptic shield, and stabbing away at men standing and others falling all around.

The kafir chief had resumed the weapons which, for convenience, he had left behind in the bush while prowling round the white man's camp, and now stalked along in all the panoply of a savage warrior-chief; with ox-hide shield, bundle of short sharp assagais, leopard-skin robe, and feathers.

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.

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.