A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other Oriental bows of mediæval and later times

by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey

A TREATISE ON
THE CONSTRUCTION, POWER AND MANAGEMENT
OF TURKISH AND OTHER ORIENTAL BOWS
OF MEDIÆVAL AND LATER TIMES

CONTENTS

PART		PAGE
I.	The Turkish Bow. Construction and Dimensions	[103]
II.	The Bow-string	[106]
III.	The Arrow	[107]
IV.	The Method of Stringing a Turkish, Persian, or Indian Bow	[109]
V.	The Horn Groove	[111]
VI.	The Thumb-ring	[112]
VII.	The Range of the Turkish Bow	[119]

Fig. 1.—Turkish Reflex Composite Bow, unstrung and strung, and its Flight Arrow.

PART I
THE TURKISH BOW—CONSTRUCTION AND DIMENSIONS

Length of bow, measured, before it is strung, from end to end along its outer curve with a tape, 3 ft. 9 in. (AAAAA [fig. 1], opposite page).

Span of bow, measured between its ends when strung, 3 ft. 2 in. (BB [fig. 1].)

Length of bow-string, 2 ft. 11 in.

Greatest width of each arm of bow, 1⅛ in.