Wonders of bodily strength and skill, in all ages and countries (1885)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 289
ately began to shoot with it,directing the arrows against a herd of deer, three or four ofwrhich fell under her shafts. Queen Catherine of Portugal, wife of Charles IL, did 286 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL. not practise archery—the long bow had gone pretty muchout of fashion in the 17th… … An English Lady practising with the Bow and AlSCIf,(Early part of Nineteenth Century.) Her Majesty Queen Victoria faithfully observed the tradi-tions of her ancestors with respect to archery, and in heryouth, and at the commencement of her reign, regularlypractised with the long bow. If the kings…
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