Fingo
Britishnoun
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And in the rear marched the Fingo contingent, howling their war-song and looking intensely valiant now that the danger was over.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
There was a curious instance, once, of a Fingo going mad in consequence of being bitten by a leopard.
From Six Months at the Cape by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
On its green banks reclined a crowd of Fingo warriors, in their war attire of plumes, assegais, shields of bullock-hide, and their karosses draped gracefully round them.
From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Harriet Ward
Our surprise was increased when we found that the book occupying their attention was the Bible, translated into the Kaffir language, which, by the way, scarcely differs from the Fingo.
From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Harriet Ward
By the system of intelligence that he maintained, Rhodes learned of the frame-up, the whereabouts of the boy, and furthermore, that he was in love with a Fingo girl.
From An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson
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