Beside the road, on the right, a human figure, head and legs dangling
downward, on each side, was fixed on an impaling stake. The stake was some
ten feet in height, and some four inches in diameter. It had been wedged
between rocks and braced with stones. Its point was roughly sharpened,
probably with an adz.
Mercenaries
Hammer
“Do you have rope, or hammers and nails?” asked the officer.
“Of course, Captain,” said the man.
Magicians
Mattock
Carried by a peasant She was peasant, barefoot, her garment little more than
coarse sacking. She had been carrying a wicker basket con-
taining vulos, domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and meat.
Her man, carrying a mattock, was not far behind. Over his
left shoulder hung a bulging sack filled with what must have
been the paraphernalia of his hut.
Nomads
I looked at him with sudden apprehension. In his hand he held something which
looked like a pair of pliers, except that the claws were extremely slender, and
bent in such a way as to touch one another, at the tips scarcely more than a
needle’s width.
"What is that?" I asked.
"A punch," said Targo.
"Put your head back," said the leather worker.
Captive
Pliers
Beside me stood a man with pliers and a hook knife.
Assassin
Lathe
I passed a boy in a shop using a bow lathe. He spins the wood with bow
and string, held in his right hand. He uses his left hand and his right
foot to guide the cutting tool.
Tribesmen