"Iron-tipped spears...Copper sheathing protected the shafts for fully half their length. Cross-hilted swords were also visible, hand-and a-half grips and boiled leather scabbards. Billhooks for unseating riders, sheaves of long arrows with leather fletching. Throwing axes, as favoured by the Arapay. Broad cutlasses in the Merude style."

MT, UK Trade, p.138