| Many of the soldiers indeed were assegaied before they could leave their tents, most were slaughtered at once, but a few managed to swim across the river. |
| I found there a man in a red coat badly assegaied in the arm, unable to move. |
| One determined Zulu even jumped over the barricade and assegaied a disoriented patient to death, though he himself was quickly picked off by a British rifleman. |
| I could of course make no answer to this, so he sent men who clubbed or assegaied four of the culprits, but two escaped. |
