This was because the powder was then so bad that the barrels need be no more than eighty times the weight of the shot as against about four hundred times, a century later.
Lento yayingenxa yomgubo owawumbi emphandeni kwakufuneka ubemninzi ngaphezulu kwesibhozo wezinto ezimbalwa ekuchaseni kwamakhulu amane eminyaka, kwinkulungwane yamandulo.