The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-26

recipe for the powder. with. which his choiro-
slphon was loaded throughout. Sulphur, L
Sp po%Sd hn'G b or SaIi on marble ssRi eRpO'ho %a sai IN SscS.
a rocket made in two parts, one of which the
".the jacket that makes tho thunder" The
former was a long and narrow tube. tho latter
2 . short and thick cylinder n n The ,,O two Were f Ss.
tween them through q hole containing q fuse.
Arabic, writer's OF the following centuries
record higher. or at least wide. Developments
of this art of warning with FIRE. One such who
l. worth referring to here, because he was a
G E!s0r o. Of sp pSs Horse TSs Np poc tom Ion a HsGSysnS of
Malaga. 4 sort.of pharmacopUia compiled by
Add Allah shows considerable knowledge OF
properties of ~sRltpetrs other than healing. The
Arabic work which most olucidates the history
Of Greek FIRE is a manuscript in the National
Library of Paris which Reinaud and Fave used
TO support their theory of tho origin of modern
explosives. This is Q the Art OF Warning
E tVb 1ho oaSs Si St SSS, y bSs eq aniSor,s so n"So%s
name means The Glory OF Religion, llRssan
The Hunchback Lancer, and he died in 1900,
that OF Marcus Graccus that its author under.
stood, in practice at least, the dynamic value
of rapid combustion. The names hv gives to
his warlike fireworks arc quantity significant.
One form. OF rocket he calls n hurricane hyer,
SS1 npn : i "t tTon sES that S6ti %SV9 the Itself toabD G@d
obscurity OF some OF his terms and accounts for
it by suppoSing that Ilassan was writing by
Initiated and not a work for the eniightenment
OF the public. Io uses, for example, the word
Tor rose where something In the nature OF n
time fuse appears to be, meant, and some of his
tho limits OF VI. Tteinaud's vocabulary. lie is
always the pious ."Glory of Religion" as
where. In giving directions for making and
using what he calls n ''borthab,' he ends with,
Thou shalt burn him, II II please God" His
not of 1rak," named in honor of n dis
trict OF Arabia famed in his time for skill.
full artihccrs, seems to have boon a fairly, ser
viccable bomb or grenade, and he gives. full oil.
%rections for hurting 1t at the enemies OF Islam.
Among his recipes Is one which may have been
the germ of Admiral Camara's own chemist 8
idea; 1t Is what Hassan calls ''sOporitic smoke"
and the ingredients arc saltpetre, sulphur. ar
senic, and opium enough to send the most In,
only be induced to inhale 1t In sufficient guam
titles. Lastly, Hassan's compound Tor IRE that
makes the faces of the enemy Look as II they
were bleeding and that which makes them look
black remind one of the Importance attached 70
what may he called imaginative operations in
madiRval, as in modern Chinese, warfare.
In these days, when nobody who knows any
thing keeps it to himself, and every mans
ideas serve as hints to hundreds of other men, 1t
IL difficult to realize that the "Rook of Fires
for Burning Enemies" had been in existence
more than 200 years before the siege of Niebla,
icler says, the besiegcd Moors produced dis.
charges of thunder with fire. The sultan OF
Morocco used cannon at Sidjilmcra in 1878.
Tho Siege of AlReciras, where the MooIs again
used cannon, only antcdated CreCy by four
years. after which latter event the use of ar
mystery to the Christian nations of western Eu'
rore. But the belief in Greek fire as a mys
terious something far beyond mere naphtha oil
| petroleum or rockets, or even cannon a won
derful buried secrOt-seems to maintain It's hold
upon many imaginations even to this day.