The bow was made either of one stout piece of male bamboo, about 3 ft. 6 in. long, or of several flat strips lashed together.

In the latter case, the bow-string passed through a hole in each end of the bow, fig. 174, p. 240. The bow-string consisted of animal sinew twisted into a cord of suitable strength.

It will be seen that an arrow cannot drop down from the magazine into the groove along which the bow string travels till the latter is in the notch above the trigger, as shown in A, fig. 174, p. 240.

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