Coast of Antangil















Cast iron fauconneux (1589)





Organ gun, c1600

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                     of Antangil. Book three.             91

previously committed such a fault, he is punished rigorously according to the ordinances, & if the squad captain does not intend to give reason, the civil Centurion will take him, & after having tried him, will send him to the Centmillenary of the capital city of the Province, who will send for the Dixenier with the Chiefs, if they were in the company, & the thing proven, he pays four times the damage, & is held in prison for a year, or even is degraded from arms, or banished, or punished with another greater penalty according to the requirement of the crime.
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Of the Artillery & other munitions of war which are in each capital city.

CHAP. VIII.

       The capital cities are not only provided with artillery as far as can be said, but also very abundantly furnished with all munitions of war, having a very fine Arsenal in each, furnished with 50 large battery cannons: thirty culverins, forty medium ones, two hundred fauconneau, sixty orgues cradles, mortars and short cannons in

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