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In one of the arsenals is an eagle made of gun-flints, with swords for wings, daggers for feathers, and the mouths of cannons for eyes. A painting of the Strelitzes, in another, represents heaven as containing the Russian priests and all the faithful; while the other place a region of fire and brimstone contains Jews, Tartars, Germans, and negroes! The winter markets of Moscow and St.
Simpson. If they were astonished on one side to see me, the amazement was still greater on the other for reports were so far in advance that we were said to have already fallen by the spears of the Esquimaux. January 3. I made a demand from both parties for supplies such as ammunition, gun-flints, axes, files, clothing, tobacco and spirits.
An ounce of gunpowder having been found in the morning, was dried in the sun during the day, which was very fine; a steel, gun-flints, and tinder made also a part of the same parcel. After a good deal of difficulty we set fire to some fragments of dry linen.
He went off honestly, with the exception of taking a fine "tari" skin given me by Nyamoana, but he left a parcel of gun-flints which he had carried for me all the way from Loanda. I regretted parting with him thus, and sent notice to him that he need not have run away, and if he wished to come to Sekeletu again he would be welcome.
They do it yet; for although the flint-arm has gone out and the forts have tumbled down, the decree hasn't been repealed been overlooked and forgotten, you see and so the vacancies where old Ticonderoga and others used to stand, still get their six quarts of gun-flints a year just the same."
A few awls to enable him to mend his bark canoe when open water came, and a couple of steel traps, some gun-flints, and, O yes, he had almost forgotten a most essential thing twine to make a net, and some fish-hooks. "It iss a regular outfit you will be wanting," remarked the store-keeper, as he handed over the various articles.
"All square here?" inquired the hunter, tapping his stomach. "Could digest gun-flints and screw nails!" The two smoked in silence for some time; then Joe drew forth a soiled letter, which he handed to his companion, saying "It's bin lying at the post-office for some weeks, and as the postmaster know'd I was comin' here he asked me to take it.
News traveled slowly, the semaphore telegraph was but slowly coming into use, and the fastest couriers rode from Nice to Paris or from Paris to Berlin in seven days. Firearms of every description were little improved: Prussia actually claimed that she had been forced to negotiate for peace because France controlled the production of gun-flints.
In the corner behind the door, shining hobnailed shoes stood in a row under the slab of the washstand, near a bottle of oil with a feather stuck in its mouth; a Matthieu Laensberg lay on the dusty mantelpiece amid gun-flints, candle-ends, and bits of amadou.
Then, placing a "quarter" with his left hand the leather pad that covers his knee, he will, with an oblong hammer, strike off flake after flake, perhaps 1,500 in a morning; and finally will work these up into sharp-edged squares to serve as gun-flints for the trade with native Africa. Alas! the palmy days of knapping gun-flints for the British Army will never return to Brandon.
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