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1872 H. M. Stanley How I found Livingstone xv. 602 Suddenly I heard Khamisi say, ‘Master, master! here is a “simba!” (lion)’; and he came up to me trembling with excitement and fear..to point out the head of a beast, which could be seen just above the tall grass.

1891 R. Monteiro Delagoa Bay vi. 117 There are many simbas, or wild cats, here, who prowl about at night... They emit a strong scent of musk, which hangs about the clothes for a long while, should one happen to go through bush where a simba has previously passed.

1918 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan & Jewels of Opar iii. 30 The strange white man must certainly succumb to terrible Simba.

1975 T. Dinesen My Sister, Isak Dinesen v. 56 A large simba had been lying at the river-crossing and hadn't moved as he went by, only stared menacingly at him.

2010 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 Aug. (Travel section) This is where I saw my first simba, roaring from the top of a termite mound with the morning dew glistening all around him.

1964 Express (Lock Haven, Pa.) 6 Nov. 6/3 Gbenye's ‘simbas’—lions—of the ‘liberation army’ and their ungovernable teen-age allies from local tribes are being pushed back.

1966 Transition No. 26. 39/1 In battle, the simbas had to walk straight forward, and keep their eyes to the front to avoid loss of invulnerability.

1976 Drum (Johannesburg) Sept. (E. Afr. ed.) 3/1 Has Amin now recognised his weakness? What does he now think and say? Does he still claim to be the simba of Africa?

2004 Rev. in Amer. Hist. 32 118 Cuba failed because of the weakness of its African ally, a shadowy, inept, and poorly equipped guerrilla movement known as the Simbas.