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shine in the soal and fills it with a

steady and perpetual serenity.

IMPERIAL VALLEY PREBB

TREE TRUNK CANNON.

Wonderful Wooden Hide Wound Guns

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 the Dominican Re

public, however, have from time to

time mode cannon from trees and ap

plied them to practical purposes. In

the Antilles there grows a peculiar tree

with a winding grain, so tenacious of

fiber that to spilt It by ordinary means

Is almost an impossibilty.

When wanted for artillery purposes

the tree Is felled, a section some five

feet In length and oDe foot In diameter

Is selected and cut, tbe bark is remov

ed. and uneven places on tbe surface

are dressed down.

Tbe embryo cannon ts then placed

on rude trusses and a bore burned In

it, a process that serves further still to

harden the wood. While the bore la

being burned green ox hides are cut

Into long strips by beginning in tbe

center and working toward the outer

edge as one would peel aD apple.

When all is In readiness one end of

this rawhide band, which Is about

three laches in width, to spiked to tbe

wooden cannon near tbe breech. A

lever or bar is attached to the butt

Two or three negroes grasp the arms

of the bar and slowly turn tbe hollow

ed log on Its supports. Tbe band of

green bide is kept under a strain, and

in this way tbe core of tbe canuon Is

wound with one of tbe tougbest ma

terials, wire excepted, in tbe world.

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Imperial Valley press. (1911). El Centro, Calif., 1911-12-06. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn92070146/1911-12-06/ed-1/?sp=3

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Imperial Valley press, 1911-12-06.