feudal times in China, to revert aycain to the bow and arrow the Kast, hows were handsomely ornate, with green bands and deicate ornamentation of very, horn, the size and colour of which Signified the -user's rank. and seal skins made the bow eases, Arrows were made of sedge, the coarse grass growing in swam nlaees, and their barbs were tips of metal, stone, ivory or bone.
In the Ch'in Dynasty bows four fect in length put in their appearance, according to the Chinese ian, as did poisoned arrows, other records make mention of which, if beginning late was yet us catch up and out-distance much that had gone before, commenced,
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