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Have they really slain the rover? It is worth some risk to know; so, with firelocks poised and ready, Up the sloping hills they go, with a quick lookout and steady. Dead! The random shot had struck, to the heart had pierced the Tory Vengeance seconded by luck! Lies there, cold and stiff and gory, Jack, the Regular. "Jack, the Regular, is dead! Honor to the man who slew him!"
By this time the volunteers were on the march, and as Derriman ascended the road he met the Overcombe company, in which trudged Miller Loveday shoulder to shoulder with the other substantial householders of the place and its neighbourhood, duly equipped with pouches, cross-belts, firelocks, flint-boxes, pickers, worms, magazines, priming-horns, heel- ball, and pomatum.
But their escape would have cast a very undeserved discredit upon the army, and the proposal was discountenanced. Burgoyne said, what sailors could do, soldiers might do; and if the attempt were sanctioned for the one, the others must throw away their knapsacks and take their firelocks. As Mr.
So little danger had been apprehended from the natives in the former journey, that three firelocks had been considered sufficient for our defence. On the present occasion, however, I thought it adviseable to provide arms for each individual. Mr. Hume declined accompanying me, as the harvest was at hand. Mr. The concluding chapter of this volume, relative to the promontory of St.
In a company of a hundred and thirteen, including officers, he had sixty-four armed with firelocks to thirty carrying pikes and halberds. As before his time the proportion between the arms had been nearly even; he thus more than doubled the number of firearms. Of these weapons there were two sorts, the musket and the harquebus. The musket was a long, heavy, unmanageable instrument.
Ye see, David my man, yon wild Hielandman is a danger to the ship, besides being a rank foe to King George, God bless him!" I had never been so be-Davided since I came on board: but I said Yes, as if all I heard were quite natural. "The trouble is," resumed the captain, "that all our firelocks, great and little, are in the round-house under this man's nose; likewise the powder.
The next one is the armory, which is the smallest of all that we had passed through; but its walls gleam with the steel blades of swords, and the barrels of pistols, matchlocks, firelocks, and all manner of deadly weapons, whether European or Oriental; for there are many trophies here of East Indian warfare.
They are wrought by rolling a flatted bar of iron of proportionate dimensions spirally round a circular rod, and beating it till the parts of the former unite; which method seems preferable in point of strength to that of folding and soldering the bar longitudinally. The art of boring may well be supposed unknown to these people. Firelocks are called by them snapang, from the Dutch name.
Some are very considerable tribes, such as Zohran, Ghamed, Shomran, Asyr, and Abyda, of whom each can muster from six to eight thousand firelocks: their principal strength consists in matchlocks. Horses are but few in these mountains; yet the Kahtan, Refeydha, and Abyda tribes, who likewise spread over the plain, possess the good Koheyl breed.
'So we be, so we be, said the line heartily. ''Tention, the whole, then. Poise fawlocks! Very well done! 'Please, what must we do that haven't got no firelocks! said the lower end of the line in a helpless voice. 'Now, was ever such a question! Why, you must do nothing at all, but think how you'd poise 'em if you had 'em.
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