THE
BOOK OF THE SWORD
LONDON: PRINTED BY
    SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
    AND PARLIAMENT STREET
THE
BOOK OF THE SWORD
BY
RICHARD F. BURTON
MAÎTRE D’ARMES (BREVETÉ)
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
London
CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1884
[All rights reserved]
‘He that hath no Sword (-knife = μάχαιρα), let him sell his      garment and buy one.’ St. Luke xxii. 36.
‘Solo la spada vuol magnificarsi.’
(Nothing is high and awful save the Sword.)
Lod. della Vernaccia, a.d. 1200.
‘But, above all, it is most conducive to the greatness of      empire for a nation to profess the skill of arms as its      principal glory and most honourable employ.’
Bacon’s Advancement of Learning, viii. 3.
‘The voice of every people is the Sword
That guards them, or the Sword that beats them down.’
Tennyson’s Harold.
TO
THE MEMORY
OF
MY OLD AND DEAR COLLEGE FRIEND
ALFRED BATE RICHARDS
WHO
IN YEARS GONE BY
ACCEPTED THE DEDICATION OF THESE PAGES
FOREWORD.
‘I wanted a book on the Sword, not a treatise on Carte and Tierce,’    said the Publisher, when, some years ago, my earliest manuscript was    sent to him.
It struck me then and there that the Publisher was right. Consequently    the volume was re-written after a more general and less professional    fashion.
I have only one wish that reader and reviewer can grant: namely, a fair    field and no favour for certain ‘advanced views’ of Egyptology. It    is my conviction that this study, still in its infancy, will greatly    modify almost all our preconceived views of archæological history.
RICHARD F. BURTON.
Trieste: November 20, 1883.
INTRODUCTION.
The history of the Sword    is the history of humanity. The ‘White Arm’    means something more than the ‘oldest, the most universal, the most    varied of weapons, the only one which has lived through all time.’
He, she, or it—for the gender of the Sword varies—has been wor                        
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