CHAPTER X.--REVOLVING PISTOLS.

Immense demand for them--Their value--Best manufacturers--Colonel Colt’s repeating pistol described--Its double action discussed-- Machine-made pistols not equal to hand-made--Dean and Adams’s revolver described--Its improvements on Colt’s--Tranter’s double trigger revolver--His lubricating bullet and other improvements--Webley’s revolver--Comparison of self-acting and cocking-lock pistols-- Tendency of revolvers to foul--Lieut. Symons’s opinion--Other defects to be overcome--Author’s preference for double-barrelled fire-arms in warfare 413