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TOMBS OF VARIOUS GRADES.
present clubs, although corresponding to those by curves
at one end, are probably too unwieldy (as they are
nearly three feet long) to have been tbe missile regu-
larly used; and if this may have been tbeir occasional
duty, tbeir general destination was most likely to
answer the purposes in any way of an ordinary hand
weapon, like the neboot of Nubia, a short stout cudgel
now in very popular demand there. The arrows are of
light reed tipped with long tapering points of hard
wood, having projecting notches to keep them in the
wound, Others with flint heads, or with tips of bronze,
have been met with, but such as the above are better
adapted for the use of the hunter and especially the
fowler. At one time Egyptian arrows of all kinds Avere
so uncommon, that Belzoni thought it necessary to
mention he had only discovered one in the whole of
his excavations *; but although they are rare, a few
bundles have since been procured.
Two of the bows are, each, about five feet long,
round and smooth, and bending slightly towards either
end, which tapers to a sharp point. Of the third there
is only one half, but I have little doubt that the other
was also in the tomb, for that in my possession bears
crisply the marks of the ancient cutting where notches
had been purposely made to break the weapon in the
middle. If it were thus originally deposited, as seems
most likely, it comes down to us as a monument of
singular expressiveness. We may not be warranted in
* Researches, p. 172.
TOMBS OF VARIOUS GRADES.
present clubs, although corresponding to those by curves
at one end, are probably too unwieldy (as they are
nearly three feet long) to have been tbe missile regu-
larly used; and if this may have been tbeir occasional
duty, tbeir general destination was most likely to
answer the purposes in any way of an ordinary hand
weapon, like the neboot of Nubia, a short stout cudgel
now in very popular demand there. The arrows are of
light reed tipped with long tapering points of hard
wood, having projecting notches to keep them in the
wound, Others with flint heads, or with tips of bronze,
have been met with, but such as the above are better
adapted for the use of the hunter and especially the
fowler. At one time Egyptian arrows of all kinds Avere
so uncommon, that Belzoni thought it necessary to
mention he had only discovered one in the whole of
his excavations *; but although they are rare, a few
bundles have since been procured.
Two of the bows are, each, about five feet long,
round and smooth, and bending slightly towards either
end, which tapers to a sharp point. Of the third there
is only one half, but I have little doubt that the other
was also in the tomb, for that in my possession bears
crisply the marks of the ancient cutting where notches
had been purposely made to break the weapon in the
middle. If it were thus originally deposited, as seems
most likely, it comes down to us as a monument of
singular expressiveness. We may not be warranted in
* Researches, p. 172.