What is "nguni"

Usage examples of "nguni".

He charged Drumfire straight at the Nguni, and saw him check and change his grip on the assegai.

He touched Drumfire with his toes and broke into a trot, heading directly for the and una By now the Nguni must have understood the terrible menace of the firearms, but the man showed no fear: he increased the speed of his charge, and lifted his shield to clear his spear arm, his face twisted with the ferocity of his war-cry.

As they closed in they could hear the outcry coming from the encampment, the screams and the wailing, the wild, triumphant ululations of the Nguni as they plied the assegai and the kerrie.

So immersed were the Nguni in the joy of killing that none was aware as yet of their approach.

Just ahead of the line a Nguni was prodding one of the younger women with his assegai, goading her into position for a thrust to her belly, but she was rolling and writhing on the ground like an eel, avoiding the bright steel point.

Two more were struck by the volley from Smallboy and the other drivers, but their aim was wild, and even the wounded Nguni came on strongly, almost closing within range of their short assegais.

The charge of the Nguni faltered and halted when they could not overtake the horses.

Louisa said, with reluctant admiration, as the Nguni bayed like a pack of hunting dogs and burst into a headlong charge, straight at them.

He and his men were keeping their horses just ahead of the charge of the Nguni, baiting them on, stopping to fire when they were in killing range, then spurring ahead again.

Tegwane had warned him that it was a favoured tactic of the Nguni to pretend flight, or even to feign death, to lure their enemy on.

She was looking down at one of the dead Nguni with sadness and remorse in her eyes.

Jim told her, and she watched the distant figures of the surviving Nguni dwindle into the golden grassland, and disappear at last over the fold of the ground.

He approached the bodies of the fallen Nguni warily, loaded pistol at the ready.

Jim took one of these ornaments from the neck of the Nguni elder he had killed with his last shot.

As he went on through the camp he found that the Nguni had done their gruesome work thoroughly.