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way to damage the enemy, sometimes directly at them, striking the ground first, as [can't read]; sometimes it is thrown so as to skim horizontally along close to the ground, or high in the air to take its chance at a [can't read] "
        War Boomerangs made of malleable [can't read] of from three to ten pounds weight, and discharged out of a short field piece of artillery of large calibre, would have a terrific effect on the ranks of an enemy. The cartridge would require to have a sole of [can't read], or other proper wadding run down close to it previous to being charged with Boomerangs. There would be no "dodging" these fearful [can't read] war swords flying through the air____   A letter from the [can't read] says "The men who are constantly at the batteries become so accustomed to the sound of shot, that they know in what direction they are coming and act accordingly__ it is curious to watch how utterly indifferent some of them apparently become, though their lives may pay the [forfeit] the next minute __ I have seen more "dodging" from a cricket ball, than you may see here any day from heavy round shot with twenty lives in their power if they happen to come in the right direction." Masses of troops exposed to a pack of artillery discharging boomerangs might receive more injury at a greater range than with [can't read] canister shot, and be used with effect in positions where these would not. They would make havoc against a troop of cavalry, as the war boomerang strikes with its horns again the ground, & rebounds apparently with greater [violence] & strikes at random some distant object, [commanding] severely with its sharpened extremeties. [Suficient [sufficient]] numbers would be thinned & reduced & be of [can't read] advantage to an enemy when exposed to a [fire] with this abominable missile, it would spread terror & consternation in the ranks of the enemy

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