...the xnilitia and target shooting should then take place. The method of target shooting in those days was so peculiar as to merit a description. A figure...order in which they paid the subscription fees, which were to residents of Stellenbosch one shilling, and to all others four shillings. They fired in the...

...the militia and target shooting, should then take place. The method of target shooting in those days was so peculiar as to merit a description. A figure...order in which they paid the subscription fees, which were to residents of Stellenbosch one shilling, and to all others four shillings. They fired in the...

...McCall Theal, in his History and Ethnography of Africe south of the Zambesi, vol. 2, p. 316, as follows: "A figure resembling a parrot, and hence called a papegaai, was fixed upon a pole in the center of a circle with a radius of eighteen metres. The marksmen chose their position upon an arc...

...McCall Theal, in his History and Ethnography of Africe south of the Zambesi, vol. 2, p. 316, as follows: "A figure resembling a parrot, and hence called a papegaai, was fixed upon a pole in the center of a circle with a radius of eighteen metres. The marksmen chose their position upon an arc...

...the drilling of the militia and target practice. The target resembled a parrot or 'papegaai' which was fixed upon a pole in the centre of a circle with a radius of sixty feet. The marksmen chose their position in the order in which they had paid their subscription fees, which to residents of Stellenbosch...