CHAPTER IV. 

 ARMAMENT. 



PART II. MILITARY ASMS. 



The Importance of " Keeping Pace with the Times" Brown Bess 

 The Percussion Musket-The Enfield Eifle The Westley 

 Richards' Breech-loading Rifle and Cartridge The Westley 

 Richards' Central Fire Military Rifle and Cartridge The Snider 

 Rifle and the Boxer Cartridge Different Systems of Rifling 

 compared Holster Pistols Colt's Repeating Arms Dean's 

 Revolver Tranter's Breech-loading Revolver " The Whis- 

 perer" Breech-loading Mountain Guns Jacobs' Shells. 



AT last, in spite of the trammels of red tape 

 and old-fashioned official routine, " the powers 

 that be " have become aware of the fact, that in 

 order to maintain our national prestige they must 

 keep pace with the times ; and although Govern- 

 ment are still very slow in recognising real merit 

 in new inventions, and look upon every contem- 



