A QUOIT-THROWER, 
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with amazing velocity at the wooden frame, striking 
the centre line, and impelling it above an inch into 
the wood, in which the disk stuck so firmly as to 
require a considerable tug to withdraw it. This he 
repeated twice, striking the second and third white 
lines with equal dexterity and force. 
A pine-apple was next suspended from a pole at 
the same distance, at which the man discharged his 
missile, cutting the fruit completely through the 
centre ; thus showing that this simple instrument 
may be used with great effect in native warfare, in 
which it is occasionally employed. 
The natives of Hindostan are celebrated through- 
out the east for their feats of manual skill : in these I 
think they are unequalled by the inhabitants of any 
other country. Their strength, too, in some in- 
stances is perfectly amazing, when we consider the 
homely diet upon which they feed, and the attenuat- 
ing climate in which they dwell. 
