The natives melt a quantity of iron and pour the liquid metal from a height on to a stone laid in a tub of water. When cool the pellets are collected and sorted according to size, but not passed through sieves as is the foreign custom. Hence the great... With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley - Страница 184по Henling Thomas Wade - 1895 - 187 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Charles M. Dyce - 1906 - 256 страници
...ignition is effected by a smouldering match-rope or jossstick." On the subject of shot, he writes : — " The natives melt a quantity of iron and pour the liquid...of water. When cool the pellets are collected and 172 sorted according to size, but not passed through sieves, as is the foreign custom. Hence the great... | |
| HENLING THOMAS WADE - 1910 - 324 страници
...rattan charcoal is used. Four mace weight of powder is the ordinary charge for a gingal. SHOT- ft =? size, but not passed through sieves as is the foreign...bullets natives generally use chunks of nailrod iron, ii inch long. Seldom is lead employed. It must be borne in mind that the native rarely shoots ground... | |
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