The frontier

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TREE TRUriK CAiVNON.

Wonderful Wooden Hide Wound Gune

of the Antilles.

The mention of wooden guns sug

gests a company of boy soldiers com

manded by a captain who wears a tin

sword. The revolutionary soldiers of

Cuba, Haiti and tbe Dominican Re

public, however, have from time to

time made cannon from trees and ap

plied them to practical purposes. In

tbe Antilles there grows a peculiar tree

with a winding grain, so tenacious of

fiber that to split it by ordinary means

is almost ati imposslbllty.

When wanted for artillery purposes

tbe tree is felled, a section some five

feet in length and one foot in diameter

is selected and cut, tbe bark is remov

ed, and uneven places on tbe surface

are dressed down.

Tbe embryo cannon is then placed

on rnde trusses and a bore burned in

it, a process that serves further still to

harden the wood. While tbe bore is

being burned green ox hides are cut

into long strips by beginning in tbe

center and working toward tbe outer

edge as one would peel an apple.

When all is in readiness one end of

this rawhide band, which is about

three inches in width, is spiked to the

woodeu cannon near tbe breech. A

lever or bar is attached to tbe butt

Two or three negroes grasp the arms

of tbe bar and slowly turn tbe hollow

ed log on its supports. Tbe band of

green hide is kept under a strain, and

in this way the core of the cannon is

wound with one of the toughest ma

terials. wire excepted, in the world.

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The frontier. (1911). O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb., 1911-07-13. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/2010270509/1911-07-13/ed-1/?sp=8

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The frontier, 1911-07-13.