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Updated: May 13, 2025
For three years the Transvaal had been arming to the teeth. So many modern magazine-rifles had been imported that there were enough to furnish five to every male burgher in the country. The importation of ammunition was on the same gigantic scale. For what were these formidable preparations? Evidently for a war with Great Britain, and not for a defensive war.
What supplies? Why, metallic cartridges, of course, Winchester and Henry, for their magazine-rifles, don't you know? Oh, yes. He understood well enough that they were all going out on the war-path, but he couldn't help that. He was paid so much a month to haul supplies from Sidney to Red Cloud agency, and if it happened to be powder and lead, 'tweren't none o' his business. How much had he?
One of the early international movements of the twentieth century will be directed towards the prohibition of the sale of such weapons as magazine-rifles, quick-firing field guns, and torpedoes to any savage or barbarous race.
To the same end, Alex and Jack used their magazine-rifles as single-shots, holding the magazines, fully charged, in reserve. "I think I'm getting one of them now and then," Alex was saying about half an hour after the disappearance of the Indian. "Or else " He broke off to fire again. "Unless their ammunition is giving out over there." Suddenly Jack snapped open his magazine.
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