Wonders of bodily strength and skill : in all ages and all countries (1873)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York : Scribner, Armstrong & Co. · leaf 334
m as light as a feather in comparison withthe lances they had been in the habit of using. EveryFriday, on issuing from the mosque, the grandees of the THE JAVELIN. 329 court assembled in a great square in the seraglio to throwthe djerid, and on these occasions sometimes a thousandhorsemen took part… … Exercise with the Javelin, (From a painted vase in the Louvre.) accompanied him on these occasions. Sometimes the pursecontained five hundred crowns, but the amount depended agood deal upon whether His Serene Highness was in agood or a bad temper. The practice of throwing the lance dates from…
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