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Updated: June 3, 2025
Indeed I hoped that the planking of the structure would turn out to be absolutely proof against the missiles usually fired from such weapons, which I expected would be the firearm used by the pirates. Thus we might hope we should avoid being thrown into confusion at the critical moment by our helmsman being killed or disabled.
The advantage he has in the protection afforded him by the desolation of his waterless mesas and sage-covered hills is thus in great measure neutralized. What, when he does possess the modern firearm, he is capable of doing with it, the achievements of the Modocs in their volcanic stronghold will attest. But these were few, and soon went down.
"With all my heart!" "Why then 'tis time we got it safe on board." "But how to do it what of Tressady's rogues, Adam?" "Having buried such of themselves as needed it, Martin, you shall see 'em playing leap-frog on the sands down yonder happy as any innocent school-lads, and never a firearm amongst 'em."
Securing the scanty venison if he can, the hunter is off for his hillside burrow, advertising his approach by an exultant jodel of extra nerve-splitting power. In Great Britain the rifle, ancient or modern, like, indeed, any other firearm, has yet to establish itself as a democratic "institution." Her forests are not forests in our sense, and her mountain-dwellers know little of the rifle.
Bracken, young feller, but you know what we do want! He's in there you're shielding him we won't parley much longer! Send him out!" said Anderson Crow. "If you come a foot nearer you'll get shot into the middle of kingdom come!" shouted Crosby defiantly. The inmates gasped, for there was not a firearm on the place. "Be careful!" warned the Reverend "Jimmy" nervously. "Goin' to resist, eh?
We were some little way ahead of the rest, and our object must have been very evident to any persons acquainted with the existence of the cavern. Just then the report of a firearm was heard, and a bullet whistled by us close to our ears. It did not stop us though, but made us dart on still more rapidly; and as we did so we saw a man climbing up the cliff above the cavern.
Even then Western supremacy was gradual and only recently completed by the exploitation of petroleum, rubber and high explosives. Brown Bess, as a shooting weapon, was far inferior to the long-barrelled flint-lock of Morocco, and the Arabian match-lock could out-range any firearm in existence till sharp cutting tools made the rifle possible.
"Yo' goin' cook de whole islan' in a fry pan?" asked Doc. "If there's a hundred dollars' worth of gold in a bushel of sand, don't you think it would pay?" asked Trask, as he went out. "Some cookin'!" declared Doc. Trask now searched Jarrow's cabin in the hope of finding some sort of firearm, but there was neither pistol nor rifle.
Carabineers were at first some Basque and Gascon horsemen in the French service, whose peculiarly distinguishing characteristic was a skilful use in the saddle of a short firearm. Hussars originated in Hungary, taking their denomination from the word husz, which signifies twenty, and ar, pay every twentieth man being required by the state to enter into service.
The mutinous sepoys had their rifles with them; there were guns from the ramparts of Hanadra that were capable of quite efficient service at close range; and practically every man in the dense-packed rebel line had a firearm of some kind. It was only in cavalry and discipline and pluck that the British force had the advantage, and the cavalry had already charged once and had been repulsed.
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