The next instant the door opened, and Ali, yataghan in hand, rushed into the room. |
A huntsman dismounts and stabs his shoulder with the yataghan. |
The yataghan has one-edged curved blade with ornamentation and Arabian lettering. |
Has folded up his turban, put away his kaftan, hung up his yataghan, and once more resumed the dress of commonplace Englishman. |
The next morning the yataghan of Ali was found beneath the window! |
These flamboyant Turkish uniformed troops also had muskets with bayonets of this form, and a number of yataghan blade bayonets appeared for both U.S. and Confederate forces. |