Avicenna’s description of iron, 106 Axe (as a weapon), 20, 90 _sq._; of copper and stone, 67 — (derivation of the word), 91 _n_ Axe-heads of pure copper, 57 Ayri (cutting instruments; Peru), 67 ‘Azagay’ (in Spanish and Portuguese), 42 _n_ Azure (in heraldry; derivation), 140 _n_ Baal Suteckh (Hittite War-god), 173 Baal-Zephon, site of, 175 _n_ Babanga (Sword; Gaboon), 165 Babel, Tower of, 55 Baboons, 2 Babylon, conquest of, 209 Babylonia, account of, 199 _sq._; civilisation in, 200 Babylonian chronology, 199 _n_ Backsword, 123; Chinese, 64 Bagpipe, origin of the, 120 Báhuyuddha (class of weapons, Hindú), 214 Baïonette Gras, 94, 134 _Balanitis Aegyptiaca_ (= Persea; Egyptian ‘Tree of Life’), 202 _n_ Balawat, bronze gates of, 202 Baldur the Beautiful, 178 Baleares (‘Slinging-Isles’), 19 _n_ Balestarius (= crossbow-man), 185 Balistæ (Roman artillery), 19, 249 _Batistes capriscus_ (‘file-fish’), 9 Ballistics, 16 Balloons, 31 _n_ Ball-steel (Chinese), 114 Bamboo (blades made of), 12, 14 _n_; arrow-heads, 26 ‘Bamboo-grass,’ 12 ‘Bantu’ (Folk), 3 _n_ Ban Umha (white copper: Keltic), 65 ‘Barbarian,’ history of the word, 261 _n_ Barbarism of the ancient Germans, 273 Bards of Greece, the age of the, 220 Barylithic (glacial Drift) age, 5 _n_ Barrows, Cimbrian (finds in), 274 Barzil (iron: Hebrew), 103 Basalt-splinters for wooden Swords, 47 Basket-hilt of a Sword, 124, 126 _n_ Bas-reliefs of Assyria, 176, 201 — of Khorsabad, 209 — of Persepolis, 209 Baswa knife (Upper Congo), 170 Bâton ferré, 20 Battering-ram, Assyrian, 203 Battle-axe of pure copper, 70 Battle-gear of gold, 212 Battle-scene in sculpture (Cuttack), 216 Bauldric, 206 Beaked axe, 95 Bears, polar, 3 Bechwana club-axe, 93 Bedstead of iron (of Og, King of Bashan), 103 Beheading fallen foes (Gallic custom), 269 Beheading Sword, Cutch, 168 Behistun Inscription, the, 209 _n_, 226 Belagerungs-balister, 19 Belemnites (‘thunder-stone’), 21 _n_ Bel and the Dragon, 180, 183 ‘Bell-metal,’ 84 Bellows, invention of, 119 Bellows of bullock’s hide, 111 Bellows-nozzles of copper, 68 Bells on a Sword-sheath, 169 Βέλος, 6 Benipe (meaning of the word), 99, 101 Bent Swords, Javanese, 218 _Beny Adam meshood_, 2 Bergbarthe (mine-picks; German), 91 Berytus (Asclepius), 75 Bestiarii (gladiators), 251, 253 Bhawáni (Sívají’s Sword), 8 _n_ Bibasis (gymnastic dance), 239 Bíchwa (weapon used by Sívají), 8 _n_ Bilbilis (river: Lusitania), 266 _n_ Bil-Kan (Assyrian god), 182 Bill (derivation of the word), 94 _n_ Bill-hooks of copper, 67 Birds (their methods of attack and defence), 9 Bird’s-head-shaped missiles, 37 Birth of literature in Greece, 202 _n_ Bisarme or Guisarme, 95 ‘Biscayan’ shape (of Swords), 135