sjambok occurs in 17th-century accounts of India in the form chawbuck.
You are 'Mwanga's dog, and he will skin you with a sjambok soon.'
There was the sjambok I had forgotten still lying on the window sill.
"Ou Baas holds the sjambok in his hand when he talks to me," he said quite simply.
Sibijaan drove the mules and swung his sjambok without mercy.
“Let him taste the sjambok” growled the old burgher who had expressed the opinion antagonistic to British veracity.
He picked up a sjambok, and proceeded to beat her unmercifully till her cries brought me on the scene.
He seemed to be in a desperate hurry, as he was flogging his tired and mud-bespattered animal unmercifully with his sjambok.
Then came shrieks, and the dull sound of the sjambok cutting soft human flesh.
They generally carry a sjambok, a strip of rhinoceros hide about three feet long and an inch thick.
