Chisera

Elephants, buffaloes, and zebras grazed in large numbers on the long sloping, banks of a river called Chisera, a mile and a half broad.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

It is called Chisera, and winds away to the west to fall into the Kalongosi and Moero.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874

And right now, we here Chisera (ph), Turkey which is about roughly 20 miles from the border.

CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2003 2003

"But in the old days," said he, "right here in Sagharanite there was a Chisera who could sing the wind up out of the west with the rains behind it; and she could sing the rain away, too, when she had done with it; and you could no more be still when you heard her than the wind could, but you must get upon your feet and dance what she sang."

The Song-Makers 1911

It was Tinnemaha, the father of the Chisera, went before the gods for us, I remember.

The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts Mary Hunter Austin 1901

Come away, then, and leave the Chisera to her work.

The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts Mary Hunter Austin 1901

Let the things stay in yours, Chisera; they will remind you to speak well of me when you go before the Friend of the Soul of Man.

The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts Mary Hunter Austin 1901

And you shall not dare to laugh as a bride laughs, lest it be to him my voice in the dusk; and if he turns and sighs in his sleep, you shall wonder if he dreams of the Chisera.

The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts Mary Hunter Austin 1901

What I say is for myself only; but I go not out against the Tecuyas again unless the Chisera has blessed the going.

The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts Mary Hunter Austin 1901

And though you are a Chisera, and have strange intercourse with the gods, I know you a woman, by this token.

The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts Mary Hunter Austin 1901