Chlorite splinters for wooden Swords, 47 Chonta wood (_Guilielma speciosa_), 42 Chopper-blade (Roman), 257 — knife, Hittite, 176 Choppers, Egyptian, 161 Chopper-shaped blade at Mycenæ, 229 Christianity in the Indian Peninsula, 219 _n_ Chrysaor, 180 Chrysochalcos (‘the king of metals’), 86 _n_ Chrysocolla (derivation of the word), 85 _n_ Cidaris or tiara, Persian, 209 Cimbri, a Keltic people, 273 Cinctorium (Roman general’s Sword), 257 Cingulum (waist-belt: Roman), 258 Cinyras (legendary Tyrio-Cyprian king), 188 Circumcision an African practice, 150 — stone knives used in, 46, 69 City of Priam (Troas), 190 Cladibas (claidab), 266 _n_ Claidab (= Spatha), 196 Classes of Hindú weapons, 214 Claymore, 123, 130 Cleaver of the Habshi people, 170 ‘Close-Sword,’ Roman, 258 Clothes-pins in the Troas, 191 Club, 20, 32 — development into the Sword, 39 _sq._ Club-Swords, 32 _n_; Queensland, 44 Clubs of copper, 67 Cluden (juggler’s Sword), 258 Clypeus (Roman shield), 246 _n_ Cobalt (in Ireland), 65 Cock-fighting in the Canary Islands, 254 _n_ Codicilli (tablets), 225 Coffins of granite, 81 Cohorts (of Roman army), 246 _n_ Coin of copper and zinc, 84 Colchians, 210 Cold-wrought (hammered) copper weapons, 65 Colichemarde blade, 135 ‘Collery’ (throwing-stick), 38 Colophonium (resin used for soldering), 85 _n_ Colossal Greek statues, 241 _n_ _Coluber Haja_ (Cobra di Capello; asp), 33 _n_ Combats of various animals, 9 Comb found in Nimrúd’s palace, 105 Combinations (earliest) of metals, 74 _sqq._ Comitialis morbus, 260 _n_ Comparison of Man and the lower animals, 5 Confederacy of Etruscan cities, 194 Cong copper mines, 169 Congo Sword, 165 Contus (Roman cavalry spear), 246, 248 Contus (wooden pike), Gallic, 269 _Convolvulus lanifolius_, 111 Coot (its method of attack), 12 Copenhagen scramsahs, 272 _n_ Copper, 22 _n_, 30; alloys, 53, 57; the art of hardening it, 53 _sq._; cutting instruments of, 54 _n_; copper prior to iron, 55 Copper Age (of weapons), 53; anterior to bronze, 72 — and brass (alloy), 84 — and gold (alloy), 83 — and tin (alloy), 81 — arms and armour, Ancient Hellenic, 222 — arrow-piles, 65 — bracelet, 72 _n_ — celts, 57, 72 — coinage (Chinese), 64; of the Hindus, 70 — hatchets, 65; rakes and hammers, _ib._; vases, 68 — in Europe, 64; in America, 65 _sqq._ — knives, Trojan, 191 — mines, Chile, 68; Midian, 102; of South-Eastern Africa, 170 _n_ — nails (Greenland, &c.), 65 — placed in a corpse’s mouth, 68 — sheets for flooring (ancient), 55 — statuettes (coated with precious metals), 67 — Swords, 70; in Troas, 192 — tools in Egyptian hieroglyphs, 69 — trumpets, 221 Copper-trade of Cyprus, 188 ‘Cops’ (of metal), 111 Coptic language, 146