But there was nothing like the good old blunderbuss for scaring off the fuzzie-wuzzies with their sharpened guava halves. Fill it up with old nails and some black powder and fire it in their general direction - soon sent the bug.gers packing.....
Then came rather a revolutionary gun, sorry, 'weapon' in which the bullets, sorry, 'rounds' no longer had to be rammed down the barrel from the top, but could be shoved in at the other end - no more need for the flint and powder either, these new fangled things came with built-in bang! So it was good-byee to our faithful old 3-band smooth bore Enfield muskets and hello to the Martini-Henry breech-loader. And with a bit of cold steel attached to the end of the muzzle it was a dandy thing with which to keep Johnny Foreigner at bay - they didn't like that up 'em, they didn't!