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Show Marvelous Archery Tsu is on the caravan route to India, a trade that has gone on so long that the origin of the carayaners Is unknown. un-known. They, too, though dark-eyed, are lighter than Chinese. A caravan consists of many carts and sometimes several hundred men, women and children. chil-dren. They carry spears and bows and also the latest firearms; these latter lat-ter they use If attacked when they go Into laager, from which nothing but artillery would shift them. To economize econ-omize ammunition they use the primitive primi-tive weapons for killing gume. A friend of mine tried one of their bows and, although he could stretch it, could, much to their amusement, only send the arrow fifty yards or so. Two of the ruravaners, having put up a mark, jumped on their ponies and, as they passed it at eighty yards going at a hard gallop, they each struck the center, the arrows sticking side by side deep in the wood. My friend suld : "I always thought the stories of. Robin Hood and the old Knglish archers arch-ers all bunk, but since I saw that I can swallow them like a lamb." J. S. Taylor, in Adventure Magazine. |