A Praetorian guard of men with gorilla-hands like the two already seen might, in a close corner, prove more formidable than men armed with the archaic firearms of the place or with cold steel.

The price paid for these cheap firearms was based on the length of them.

Most joyfully the natives took advantage of this impolitic weakness; and so eagerly did they purchase the coveted firearms of their rivals, that Morton sent to England for a fresh supply of the dangerous merchandise.

Ugh! You have pursued him with deadly firearms and still more deadly fire water.

But this was no salvation; the dreaded long-range firearm was now empty; the savages circled nearer and began to use their arrows.

Of course, he had no time to take aim while there was a man on the other side of the room covering him, but in any case those fancy firearms cannot be depended upon to shoot straight.

When practised as an amusement, it principally consists of killing them with a light firearm called a "fowling-piece," and the sport is secured to those who pursue it by the game laws.

There were, besides, four guards, one of whom kept sentry at night over the hut, while another with a loaded firearm stood over them while they worked.

No: the thirst for blood remained as strong in the breast of Coubitant as it was on that very hour when he beheld his brother-in-arms fall, bleeding and dying, beneath the mysterious firearms of the white men; and he hoped still to pour forth the white man's blood, as an oblation to the spirit of his friend.

A number of them sought to arm themselves, but ascertained, upon inquiring at the stores, that no white merchant would sell a negro firearms.

It is indeed true that in their desperate straits the tribes sold flax, timber, potatoes, mats, tattooed heads, pigseven their precious landfor firearms.

The surrender or capture of the more respectable military element left the unsurrendered firearms in the hands of men most of whom were ignorant, many of whom were criminal, and nearly all of whom were irresponsible and unscrupulous.