Re: Crossbows

	On a related incident, I remember reading about a man who was
shot.  The bullet hit him in the pocket where his silken handkerchief
lay.  The energy of the round created a wound, but at the same time
failed to penetrate the handkerchief.  They were able to remove the
bullet simply by pulling on the exposed ends of the kerchief.  Of course,
this was sometime in the 1870s-80s and the pistol probably was using cap
and ball.

John McCloud
jmccloud@?????.????.edu

On Tue, 4 Aug 1998 seeker@???.edu wrote:

> Now, to make this remotely applicable to Spelljammer, I have heard that the
> Mongols wore silk shirts that didn't cut easily, so that arrows (while still
> piercing the flesh) would be wrapped in silk, and could be easily removed
> even if bladed or barbed.  Perhaps a silken shirt over (elven) chain mail
> would be more effective than chain mail alone.  Just a thought.