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

Fig. 6.

[Fig. 6] shows an Oriental reflex bow being gradually reversed preparatory to fitting on its bow-string.

Fig. 7.

[Fig. 7] shows a similar bow when reversed sufficiently to fit its bow-string.

Though this illustration is from an ancient Greek vase, it will be noticed that in it the power of the leg and arm is applied in precisely the same way as in the more modern example given.

PART V
THE HORN GROOVE

The thin horn groove which the Turk wore on the thumb of his left hand when flight-shooting is shown in [fig. 8].