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FIGHTING BRACELETS. 
[chap. V 
The Latookas have neither bows nor arrows, their 
weapons consisting of the lance, a powerful iron-headed 
mace, a long-bladed knife or sword, and an ugly iron 
bracelet, armed with knife-blades about four inches 
COMMORO RUNNING TO THE FIGHT. 
long by half an inch broad : the latter is used to 
strike with if disarmed, and to tear with when wrestling 
with an enemy. Their shields are either of buffaloes’ 
hide or of giraffes’, the latter being highly prized as 
