CHAPTER XIV.
1 The implements of war. 8 The engines that did fly. 14 Concerning the Mad Major. 25 The men of En employ tonics. 34 Wherefore the men of Hu cry out.
Now these be the implements of war, and all these things did men use at that time when the nations of the earth banded themselves together for the fight.
2 Now there were guns of great magnitude that did hit hard so that there was nothing that could withstand them, and, against them, the fortifications of the cities were as snow when the sun cometh out.
3 And the guns did scatter death on all sides, above and about, so that there was no living thing left nigh unto the place where they did strike; and the compass of a gun, it was beyond the sight of human eye.
4 And there were mines that the engineers did make them underneath the ground; and all that which was above the ground, that did they scatter unto the heavens so that when it returned again to earth, behold, it was not.
5 Also was there gas, and it was made of a vile poison; and when any man did deeply breathe of it, that man would most assuredly die; and the manner of his death, it was terrible.
6 And they that first made use of the gas that was poison were the men of Hu, for it was in them to do so because their minds did travel unto such things.
7 And there was liquid that was fire, and it was sent against an host for to burn up the flesh of them that came in the way. And this was also from the men of Hu and was bred of their refinement. And neither of these things did the nations of Eur use in any war that they did wage before.
8 ¶ And there were engines that did fly through the air, fearsome weapons of war that did deal out death and destruction from an ambush of clouds.