A, A. The magazine in which the ten or twelve small arrows are laid (one on the other) when the weapon is made ready for use.

B, B. The stock in which the bamboo bow is fixed.

C. The lever that works the crossbow. The lever is hinged to the stock of the crossbow and its magazine by metal pins, fig. 174, next page.

E. The piece of wood along the upper surface of which a groove is cut for an arrow to rest in, and that also has a notch in it to hold the bowstring.

This piece is attached to the magazine and forms the lower part of it.

By pushing forward the magazine by means of the lever, the bow-string is automatically caught in the notch above the trigger, A, fig. 174, next page.

At the moment when the bow-string is thus secured, an arrow falls from the magazine into the groove cut out in front of the notch. An arrow cannot drop from the magazine into the groove till the bow-string is in the notch, fig. 175, p. 242.

The trigger consists of a little piece of hard wood. When the lever is fully pulled back the trigger pushes the stretched bow-string upwards out of the notch that holds it, B, fig. 174, next page. The trigger works in an upright slot. It has its upper end enlarged to prevent it from dropping out of the slot in which it moves up or down, fig. 173.

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