These again, I take it, were ornamental.

Then came other men upon a long machine, slung in pairs in armoured sacks, out of which only their heads and arms projected.

This machine, which resembled an elongated bicycle, went by at a tremendous rate, though whence its motive power came did not appear.

It carried twenty pairs of men, each of whom held in his hand some small but doubtless deadly weapon, that in appearance resembled an orange.

Other similar machines which followed carried from forty to a hundred pairs of men.
The marvel of the piece, however, were the aircraft.