explosive transported from It can further be stated that the
lighter to magazine by coolies, using bamboo poles in the approved Chinese fashion. The breaking of a rope or one of the hundred and one things that conceivably could happen during such mode of transport when 'a case of detonators is on its to the magazine, may be imied. Nobel's work on high ex-res says that "the little de-
3r—no more than a pinch of fulminate of mercury at the bottom of a copper tube is the key to all high explosives."
Quantities of naval ammunition stored at the instance of several nations, ate also contained in the magazines above dose! The dynamite kept there has on occasion reached the huve figure of 120 tons,
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