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Hazeygaeys are synonymous with assagais, the name for the short African spear, used by the tribes between Port Natal and the Cape, and which is generally supposed to be the native term for the weapon.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by Stokes, John Lort

Regardless of several assagais that whizzed close to them, they galloped hither and thither among the bushes, but without success.

From The Settler and the Savage by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

I waved mine in answer; and directly after he began to run, coming up laughing merrily, and ending by throwing down three assagais and the bundle he carried, as he cried: “Come back, boss.”

From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by Fenn, George Manville

This being performed, by shouts and flourishes of our assagais we began to beat up the game, and drive the startled animals who sprang forth before us in the direction of the hopo.

From Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs by Phillips, Emma Watts

On the walls and in corners were several flint-lock guns, and one or two of the short light javelins used by the Kafirs for throwing in battle, named assagais.

From The Settler and the Savage by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)