MURDOCH.] 



■\VIIAT.E LAXPF,. 



Miiilal ill scciiou witli rounded 



2-n 



a 



shaft. The sliaft is rli 



tapers from a lucailtli of L' inches and a 



thickness of 1 at tlie tip tn a Imtt ot'()-7 inch 



broad and 1 tliick. The ti]. of tlie sliaft has .' 



"kaclded" down on l)oIh ed-cs, oin^ end of *'" / 

 the twiue on each ed-e, so tliat the iiitcli I 

 made by one end crosses the round turn of f 

 the other, nnikin.i;- in all twenty six turns. ^'- / 

 The shaft has been painte.l red h.r IJ, inches h'^J 

 below the whippin-. f \ \. 



Xo. S'Xm I I«;!lJl is the head and :. in.dies V 

 of the sliaft of a similar lance. The head is {. 

 of black Hint, and the sin.'w l)raid lornis a 

 simple whippin-. The remainin- heads are ' 

 all unmounted. I have li,-ured several of 

 them to show the variations of this now |_ 



obsolete weapon. Fi-. U;!!), No. ."".(itiTT [4111, ^Z 



from rikiavwin. is of ;;ray tlint (diijijied in f < i 



larfi-e Hak.'s. The total len-th is (i-!t inches. 

 The small lii.i^s on the ed-es of the tan-- are 

 to lu'cp it fromslippin.iiontof the whijipiiii;-. 

 No. r>r,r,l'.) |L';1!I|, also from I'tkiax win, is ol 

 black tlint and broader than the preceding 

 Its l(n,tli IS (, ; in<h(s No .(.(.Ml I ,'M| 

 om lh( Sinn \i]li.,i. is ol li^ht 



:J 



thnt ,iud \(i\ bio id It 



