Crossword-Solution: SJAMBOKS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 23

One wall held a medley of various articles: Jim's rifle, the sporting gun his father had given him when he was fifteen, a revolver that had been through two wars, and a cavalry sword his grandfather had carried, together with an assortment of native weapons from various countries--assegais, spears, boomerangs, throwing sticks, sjamboks and South Sea Island clubs and shields.

Now he wished to do so again, taking advantage of my presence, both because of the value of the hides of the sea-cows which were cut up to be sent to the coast and sold as _sjamboks_ or whips, and because of the sport of the thing.

Then they must be skinned and their thick hides cut into strips and pieces to be traded for _sjamboks_ or to make small native shields for which some of the East Coast tribes will pay heavily.

During my husband’s absence, the three sons of old Isaac Meyer, namely, Martinus, Jan, and Isaac, came every morning to search for my husband, saying, ‘We will kill him, he leaves our work to go without our leave for look for the boy.’ They came once with sjamboks, but afterwards with guns, saying they would kill him if they found him.

Out come the sjamboks, and he is treated precisely as a vicious or sulky horse would be treated under similar circumstances.