...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...

...like reeds, so heavy and rigid that when their ends are sharpened they will pass through a shield. Some are pointed with the bone of a fish, sharp and like a chisel ; others have a stone, like the point of a diamond." This testimony as to the bravery of the Floridian savages...

...his object. Where the arrow meets with no armor, it pierces as deeply as the shaft from a crossbow. Their bows are very perfect; the arrows are made of...strike upon armor, break at the place the parts are put 4 . • - • / ! • ; . . '"•• - -'* '" V; •/• 1539] EXPEDITION OF HERNANDO DE SOTO 149 together;...

...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...target. Some are pointed with the bone of a fish, sharp like a chisel; others with some stone like a point of diamond; of such the great number, when they...

...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...target. Some are pointed with the bone of a fish, sharp like a chisel; others with some stone like a point of diamond; of such the great number, when they...

...arrow where it findeth no 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...