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Updated: May 21, 2025
The ictus of the measure marked time for the sweeping paddles, and under the added impetus the paper shell, reinforced as it was by close-laid splints of cedar, and braced by the fiber-fastened thwarts, fairly yielded to the rush of the waves as the stalwart paddlers sent it flying forward.
They darted their spears with so great force, as ofttimes to transfix two targets and two armed men at once, and pin them together. Their pieces of battery had not only the execution but the thunder of our cannon also: "Ad ictus moenium cum terribili sonitu editos, pavor et trepidatio cepit." A pretty description of something very like an arquebuse-shot.
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