The boys found the weapons most interesting.
The arrow-heads were not on arrows such as you shoot from a bow, but on javelins, for throwing from the hand.

The chief weapon was a stone fastened to a rather short stick something like the things gentlemen used to carry about and call life-preservers in the days of the garrotters.
Then there were long things like spears or lances, with flint knives--horribly sharp--and flint battle-axes.
Everyone in the village was so busy that the place was like an ant-heap when you have walked into it by accident.

The women were busy and even the children.
Quite suddenly all the air seemed to glow and grow red--it was like the sudden opening of a furnace door, such as you may see at Woolwich Arsenal if you ever have the luck to be taken there--and then almost as suddenly it was as though the furnace doors had been shut.

For the sun had set, and it was night.
The sun had that abrupt way of setting in Egypt eight thousand years ago, and I believe it has never been able to break itself of the habit, and sets in exactly the same manner to the present day.

The girl brought the skins of wild deer and led the children to a heap of dry sedge.
'My father says they will not attack yet.