Gauchos' weapons

Usage examples of bolas.

Although the women had brought their bolas, none had any real weapons with them.

Arming her bola, and commanding those who had bolas of their own to do the same, Lonit drew in a deep, steadying breath.

Use the bolas to tie yourselves together so no one will be swept away!

The women and girls got close enough to brain a few small birds with stones loosed from their bolas, and three times in as many days the men of the band speared larger quarry, and the heartened people shared the meat of eagles and a teratorn.

In a moment spears would fly, bolas would whir, the beasts would fall dead, and everything would be all right again.

Tertiary bed yielded dressed and polished stones, bolas and boladeras, identical with those used as missiles by the Indians.

The bolas were firmly in place in the very hard terrain that enclosed them, and there was no sign of there having been any disturbance of the earth that covered them.

Stone balls of this type, known to them as bolas, are still used by native hunters in South America.

The objects reported by von Koenigswald, if used in the same manner as South American bolas, imply that their makers were adept not only at stone-working but leatherworking as well.

The bolas of Miramar are significant in that they point to the existence of human beings of a high level of culture during the Pliocene, and perhaps even earlier, in South America.

To his right Lawrence was running towards the sayce, his bolas whirling frantically.

The boy let the bolas fly, yelling with adrenalin intoxication, and it caught the sayce on its forelegs, stones twisting in ever-shorter arcs with incredible speed.