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Bowmanship remains the sport of the elite.The bamboo and buffalo-horn bow, with its
Double curve, obeys the eye more than the hand. Once the gaze is planted squarely in the
middle of the target, the arrow has only to follow.
Throughout whole afternoons, the men (a few old-timers among them) riddle a plank stuck
some 150 meters away among the bare stones. It seems to waver in the sun. A hit on the target
sends back a brief echo, like a popgun. People stroll at the foot of the shooting ground, beneath
the deluge of arrows, indifferent to the piles mounting above their heads like the horsemen of
the Triumph of Death.