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: The Book of the Sword by Burton Richard Francis Sir - Swords

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FOREWORD ix

INTRODUCTION xi

CONCLUSION 280

INDEX 281

FIG. PAGE

I have noticed that arrant humbug, the celebrated 'golden axe' which, in 1880-81, caused the last 'Ashantee scare' . The thing sent to England was certainly not the great fetish which is held to be the national Palladium. Another memento of the last Ashantee war, 'King Koffee's umbrella, an article of prodigious proportions, and of gaudy material,' only returned to where it was made. The type of the latter may be seen in most Italian market-places, shading the old women's fruits and vegetables; and Manchester, I believe, had the honour of building it.

Captain Cameron has brought home specimens.

According to Marco Polo , the men of Zanghibar are 'both tall and stout, but not tall in proportion to their stoutness, for if they were, being so stout and brawny, they would be absolutely like giants; and they are so strong that they will carry for four men and eat for five.'

Gen. xxiii. 18. In 2 Sam. xxiv. 6, 'Aretz tahtim-hodshi' should be read, 'Aretz ha-Hittim Kadesh,' 'the land of the Hittites of Kadesh.'

Wild work has been made with this word. Some render it 'large' ; the scholiast calls the Cetians a people of Mysia; others confound them with the Kittaians of Menander in Josephus ; others with the people of Kiti , the Heb. Galil or Galilee.

'Two-river' is mostly applied to the great Interamnian plain, Mesopotamia. Here it must mean Syria proper; and Aram Naharayn admirably describes Palestine, which is composed of a double anticlinal river-valley formed by the Iarunata and the Arunata . The whole length and breadth of the country is distributed between the two, with the exception of the small Litani watershed.

This word is corruptly written Jerablus, Jorablus, Jirabis, &c.

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