The remainder of the Zulus--there were ten or a dozen of them armed with stabbing spears--we kept with us.

We found stones used over a century ago to grind corn and later a rutted chunk of sandstone against which passing warriors sharpened their assegais, or stabbing spears.

More had short stabbing spears with leaf -shaped heads that gleamed redly in the light from the burning stables.

Instead of using throwing spears, the Zulus used broad-bladed, stabbing spears known as iklwa, which were deadly in close combat.

Stabbing spears and reed shields were also used by horon, while a kélé-koun might be armed with a locally made saber.

Even as she watched, one was swarmed under, men and horses, by stabbing spears.

The point of decision was exactly the mess she'd expected: stabbing spears, flailing shields, corpses and living fighters alike too pressed by the crowd on either side to move, except downward.

It was one of those broadbladed stabbing spears, the assegai which had been designed by the old king Chaka himself.

In an instant he was the center of a hurricane of stabbing spears and lashing clubs.

Before hecould reach the foot of the stairway its top was filled withpriests, white-faced, snarling, swords in their hands, andshort stabbing spears.