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boring-machine, the mode of using which the gusti then ex- 

 plained to me. It was simjjly a strong bamboo basket, through 

 the bottom of which was stuck upright a pole about three feet 

 long, kept in its place by a few sticks tied across the top with 

 rattans. The bottom of the pole has an iron ring, and a hole 



GUN-BORING. 



in which four-cornered borers of hardened iron can be fitted. 

 The barrel to be bored is buried upright in the ground, the 

 borer is inserted into it, the top of the stick or vertical shaft 

 is held by a cross-piece of bamboo with a hole in it, and 

 the basket is filled with stones to get the required weight. 

 Two boys turn the bamboo round. The barrels are made in 



