On examination it was found that the assagai had been arrested by the strong pouch and belt, and had only given him a trifling scratch, so that the gallant and amiable Mr DODS Pringle lived to fight in future Kafir wars.
"The Settler and the Savage"
R.M. Ballantyne
Huggo called, "I say, DODS.
"This Freedom"
A. S. M. Hutchinson
In 1686, little William Hickman, a year old infant, was bound out to William DODS of Isle of Wight County to be in his care and service until he was twenty-one years of age.
"Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet Number 17"
Annie Lash Jester