shauri

He sent for the headman and with him held a long shauri.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

Sitting in full uniform upon the poop of the launch, together with the two sergeants, zu Pfeiffer held a shauri and demanded sufficient paddlers to man his forty canoes.

Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

"There is going to be a shauri, a talk with these porters of yours."

Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman

As there happened to be gathered, at this time, several thousand of warriors for the purpose of a council, or shauri, with the District Commissioner we had just the audience to delight our barbaric hearts.

The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

Later the native will accept much less if the _shauri_ goes with it.

In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909

For a language that has only a few words like _shauri_, _backsheesh_,

In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909

Soon after up came Askar, who also squatted down, and we knew that we were in for some unusual sort of a _shauri_.

In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909

On learning from our boys that these were some of the shenzis, we told them to bring the savages in for a shauri; but in this our men failed, nor could they themselves get nearer than fifty yards or so to the wild people.

The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

The native loves his _shauri_, and if he asks you a certain price for a chicken and you give the price without haggling he is greatly disappointed.

In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909

If you want to buy a chicken or a cluster of eggs there must first be a prolonged _shauri_ with much interchange of views and conversation and aërated persiflage.

In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country John T. McCutcheon 1909