2G0 SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 



Fig. 85 is a steel cimeter of Mozambique, with a broad and very tliin 

 blade. I. has a wooden handle ornamented with sheet brass enchased 

 and jeweled. It is 40 inches long, and has a groove near the back of 

 the blade. 



Fig. SC is a sickle-shape cimeter, brought by Col. Long (Bey) on his re- 

 turn from his expedition into Central Africa in the service of the Khedive. 

 It was shown in the Egyptian Department in the Main Building, and is 

 like the weapon represented by Schweinfurth as held by the Moubuttoo 

 King Munza daring the audience which he held with that potentate. 135 



Fig. (K.-Cimrtcr of Mo- 

 zambique, Africa. 



Fig. 86. — Monbitttoo cimeter, ('< nlral Africa. 



It is usually of steel, but on that occasion was a weapon of ceremony, 

 and made of pure copper. The adjacent tribe, the Niam-niams, use im- 

 plements of somewhat similar shape, curved broad-ended blades, some- 

 what after the bill hook order, reminding one of the corresponding 

 Roman implement, the falx vinitoria. 



The Tcookery of the Ghoorkas, a tiger-fighting hill tribe of India, 136 is 

 another example of a boldly curved chopping-sword, broad near the 

 end, and sharpened on the concave edge, which is, however, of an ogee 

 shape. It is about fifteen inches long, is used either to cut or thrust, 

 and is made of the famous " Wootz" steel. Two little knives are carried 

 in side pockets of the scabbard. 



i« "Africa." vol. ii. pp. 9, 10, 107. 



136 Wood, vol. ii, p. 7(30. 



