 | 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...arrow where it findeth no armor, pierccth as deeply as a crossbow. Their bows ,are very long, and their arrows are made of certain canes like reeds, very heavy, and so strong that a sharp cane passeth through a target. Some they arm in the point with a sharp bone of... | |
 | Knight of Elvas - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...his object. Where the arrow meets with no armour, it pierces as deeply as the shaft from a crossbow. Their bows are very perfect ; the arrows are made...of such the greater number, when they strike upon armour, break at the place the parts are put together ; those of cane split, and will enter a shirt... | |
 | Knight of Elvas - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...his object. Where the arrow meets with no armour, it pierces as deeply as the shaft from a crossbow. Their bows are very perfect ; the arrows are made...through a target. Some are pointed with the bone of a tish, sharp and like a chisel ; others with some stone like a point of diamond : of such the greater... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...his object. Where the arrow meets with no armour, it pierces as deeply as the shaft from a cross-bow. Their bows are very perfect ; the arrows are made...like a point of diamond: of such, the greater number, where they strike upon armour, break at the place where the parts are put together ; those of cane... | |
 | Charles C. Jones - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...his object. Where the arrow meets with no armour, it pierces as deeply as the shaft from a cross-bow. Their bows are very perfect; the arrows are made of...like a point of diamond: of such, the greater number, where they strike upon armour, break at the place where the parts are put together; those of cane split,... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...his object. When the arrow meets with no armor, it pierces as deeply as the shaft from a cross-bow. Their bows are very perfect; the arrows are made of certain canes, like reeds, very heavy and 1 See " Relation of Alvar NuBez Cabeija de Vaca," translated from the Spanish by Buckingham Smith,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...no LANDING OF DH SOTO. armor, pierceth as deeply as a crossbow. Their bows are very long ; and their arrows are made of certain canes like reeds, very heavy, and so strong, that a sharp cane passeth through a target. Some they arm in the point with a sharp bone of... | |
 | Otis T. Mason - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...very perfect ; the arrows are made of certain canes, 1 Dorsey, Third An. Rep. Bur. Ethnol., p. 312. like reeds, very heavy and so stiff that one of them,...target. Some are pointed with the bone of a fish, sharp, like a chisel; others with some stone, like the point of a diamond ; of such the greater number, where... | |
 | Edward Gaylord Bourne - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...his object. Where the arrow meets with no armour, it pierces as deeply as the shaft from a crossbow. Their bows are very perfect; the arrows are made of...of such the greater number, when they strike upon armour, break at the place the parts are put together; those of cane split, and will enter a shirt... | |
 | Edward Gaylord Bourne - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...his object. Where the arrow meets with no armour, it pierces as deeply as the shaft from a crossbow. Their bows are very perfect; the arrows are made of...of such the greater number, when they strike upon armour, break at the place the parts are put together; those of cane split, and will enter a shirt... | |
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... arquebuse can be aimed at them. Before a Christian can make a single shot with either, an Indian will discharge three or four arrows ; and he seldom misses of his object. Where the arrow meets with no armour, it pierces as deeply as the shaft from... 
