...launched in red hot balls of stone or iron, or darted in arrows or javelins twisted round with flax or tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil....seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople as the palladium of the state. The gallies and artillery...

...in large boilers, or launched in redhot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople, as the palladium of the state; the gillies and...

...deposited in fire-ships, the victims and instruments of a more ample revenge, and was most comnlonly blown through long tubes of copper, which were planted...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople, as the palladium of the state ; the gallies and...

...of a more ample revenge, and was most commonly blown through FIR 2S1 FIS long tubes of copper, which planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped...length either discovered or stolen by the Mohammedans; ami in the holy wars of Syria and Egypt they retorted an ¡mention contrived against themselves on...

...instruments of a more ample reTenge, and was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper, which planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped...length either discovered or stolen by the Mohammedans ; anil in the holy wars of Syria and Egypt they retorted an invention contrived against themselves...

...light with its flame, that we saw in our camps as clearly as in broad day." As these combustibles were fancifully shaped into the mouths of savage monsters,...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire, they prohably gave rise to those tales, so current at the period of the Crusades, of encounters with...

...tubes of copper, which were planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths ci savage monsters, that seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming- fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople, as the palladium of the state ; the galleys and...

...revenge, ana was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper, which were planted on the-prow 01 a galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths of...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople, as the palladium of the state ; the galleys and...

...copper, which were planted on the prow ol a galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths of gavage monsters, that seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. This important art was preserved at Constantinople, as the palladium of the state ; the galleys and...

...his skill in astronomy and the mathematical sciences. He dedicated one of his works to the Khaliph galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths of savage...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. . . . ' It came flying through the air,' says Joinville (the historian of the crusade of St. Louis,...