Before him, like a blood-red flag, The bright flamingoes flew; From morn till night he followed their flight, O'er plains where the tamarind grew, Till he saw the roofs of caffre huts, And the ocean rose to view.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There shrieked the great "caffre eagle," and side by side with him the short-tailed and singular "bateleur."
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
In 1847 one of these formidable creatures frequented for some months the Rangbodde Pass on the great mountain road leading to the sanatarium, at Neuera-ellia; and amongst other excesses, killed a caffre belonging to the corps of caffre pioneers, by seizing him with its trunk and beating him to death against the bank.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent