A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other Oriental bows of mediæval and later times

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Fig. 1.—Turkish Reflex Composite Bow, unstrung and strung, and its Flight Arrow.