fire-bottles

Updated: May 13, 2025

The frascos, a terrible weapon of the Ivizan corsairs, fire-bottles, which, as they burst upon the enemy's decks, set it ablaze, begin to fall upon "the Pope's" vessel. The rigging begins to burn, the upper works shiver, and like demons Riquer and his men spring aboard among the flames, pistol in one hand, boarding axe in the other.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - The Dead Command: From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan