Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Miscellanea Ethnographica. Supplement

tin and the breech consists of a solid piece of tin turned on a lathe and pierced the dimeter of the aperture being the same as that of the bore. [...] from the distal extremity at the end of the foil which protects the tip of the weapon a lump of mud is fixed on the tube as a " sight." The ornamentation of the weapon is characteristic and shows that it must have been made in North Borneo. [...] Aim is rendered inaccurate in the first place by the heaviness of the tube a fault inherent in this form of blow-gun and secondly by the unsuitable nature of the missile. [...] In this type the butt of the beam is itself heavy and the point at which the beam is suspended can be altered the change in leverage thus induced compensating for a certain weight which is noted on a scale marked on the beam. [...] The Similarity of the Tibetan to the Kashgar-Brahmi Alphabet.—By The REV.