— sabres, 80 — socketed sickle (British), 276 — statues (Etruscan), 80 — Swords, 45, 78 _n_, 80; found in Britain, 276 _sq._; Gallic, 266; found at Hallstadt, 262 _sq._; of Italy, 264; at Mycenæ, 229 _sq._ — Sword-hilt (Etruscan), 197 — supplied from Phœnicia to Europe, 78 _n_ — tablet, Hittite, 176 — work, Assyrian, 202 Buccinatores (musicians: Roman), 248 ‘Buccularius clypeus’ (= buckler), 246 _n_ Buckler (etymology of the word), 246 _n_ — of ox-hide, Roman, 248 Bucklers of osier (for recruits: Roman), 249 Buckles of a Sword, 124 _n_ Buddhism, 213 Budil, King of Assyria, 208 Buffalo, its manner of attack, 9; arrows made of buffalo-horn, 28 Bull-fights, Spanish, 253 Bull (wild), its manner of attack, 9 Bulwark (portable bridge for sieges), 154 Burbur inscriptions (Babylonia), 199 Burgwälle, 271 Burial as a method of making steel, 265 Burmese Dalwel (Sword), 219 Burying of iron, 107 _n_, 112 Buttons of gold in Troas, 193 Byzantine (?) finds at Mycenæ, 106 Cabiri (Kabeiroi), 74 _sq._ Cadmeian (old Phœnician) characters, 225 _Cadmia fossilis_ (natural calamine), 86 Cadmian stone, 86 Cadmus (_El-Kadim_, or _El-Kadmi_), 60 Cæsar’s treatment of his soldiers, 260 Caillouteurs (flint-knappers), 45 _n_ Calamine (carbonate of zinc), 71, 84; derivation of the word, 84 Calasiri (Egyptian bowmen), 152 Caledonia (etymology of the word), 275 Calisthenics, Greek, 239 Callua (paddle), 42 Calones (camp-followers: Roman), 249 Caltrops (bamboo splints of Gaboon-land), 14 Camel (the kick of the), 7 Cambyses, 209, 211 Camp-followers (Roman), 249 Campidoctores, 249 _n_ Canaanite (meaning of the word), 175 _n_ Canaanites, 182 Cane bows and arrows, Ancient Indian, 211 Canes used as bellows, 68 Canna (κάννα; whence ‘cannon’), 14 _n_ Cannelure (of a Sword), 132 Cannon (derivation of the word), 14 _n_ — of iron first cast, 117 _n_ Cannons of gold (Baroda), 162 _n_ Canticles of Solomon, the, 147 Capoeira (Brazilian fashion of fighting), 254 Capulus (Sword-pommel: Roman), 257 _n_ ‘Carbad scarrda’ (Irish war-car), 277 _Carcharias vulpes_ (fox-shark), 7; derivation of _Carcharias_, 7 _n_ Carchemish inscription, 177 Carian weapons, 211; (?) at Mycenæ, 231 _n_ — words, 231 _n_ Carpenter’s tools of copper, 67 Carpentras Inscription, the, 209 _n_ Carpentry in Ancient Egypt, 148 Carpentum (war-chariot), 269 Carpicanna, 14 _n_ Carthaginian mining operations, 107 — names, 181 — Sword-blades, 181 _Caryota urens_ (_Nibong_; sago-wood), 6, 23 Cartouche (_cartuccia_; meaning of the word), 40 _n_ Cast-copper axe, 69 Caspians, 210 _Cassia auriculata_, 111 Cassiterides, 78 _sq._ Cassowary (its method of attack), 12 Casting (of metal) among the Ancient Greeks, 221 Cast-iron slab in Sussex (14th century), 117 _n_
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