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simultaneously discharged at close quarters, and 

 usually with effect. In fact the bird rarely escapes. 

 The bows are very small ; and the arrows are not 

 weighted, feathered, or pointed, but consist simply of 

 pieces of rounded sticks, the object being to strike 

 with the side of the arrow and not with the head. 

 But they hit remarkably hard, and a bird is some- 

 times cut clean in two. 



They have frequently been known to kill the 

 oubara (a bird of the bustard species) in this way. 



