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Show Marvelout Archery Tsu is on the caravan route to India, a trade that has gone on so long that the origin of the caravaners Is on-known. on-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 hows and also the latest flrearma; these latter lat-ter they use if attacked when they jo Into laager, from which nothing hot artillery would shift them. To economize econ-omize ammunition they use the primitive primi-tive weapons for killing game. friend of mine tried one of their bows and, although he could stretch H could, much to their amusement, ooly send the arrow fifty yards or so. Two of the caravaners, having put P 1 mark, jumped on their ponies and, as they passed it at eighty yards go' at a hard gallop, they each struck the center, the arrows sticking side Iff side deep in the wood. My friend Bald : "I always thought the stories Robin Hood and the old English ardors ard-ors all bunk, but since I saw that can swallow then) like a lamb."-J-l-Taylor, in Adventure Magailnt |