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SCENES IN INDIA. 
CHAPTER X. 
ABDULNUBBI KHAN MOSQUE AT MATHURA. 
I should have mentioned that at the small town 
of Furreedabad, between Delhi and the Chauter Serai, 
we had an opportunity of witnessing the process of 
how-makings at which the workmen are there very 
expert^ and the skill displayed by some of them in 
the use of this weapon is truly astonishing. I have 
seen a pigeon on the wing struck down by a bowmans 
and a hare killed at full speed. Nor are such instances 
of dexterity at all uncommon. 
The bows manufactured at Furreedabad are com- 
posed of mulberry wood and buffalo’s horns bound 
with the sinews of the same animal dipped in a strong 
glue made from the hoof. These bows are in much 
request. They are very neatly finisheds and any one 
unused to the operation requires great strength of arm 
to string them. The arrow is a straight reed tipped 
with a steel barb and feathered at the reverse end. 
It is thirty-two or three inches long, and the shaft 
about the third of an inch in diameter. One of the 
most celebrated marksmen of the place gave us a spe- 
cimen of his dexterity by strikings at the distance of 
twenty paceSs a small copper coin from the top of a 
slight bamboo fixed into the ground. He knocked 
