Пожалуйста, помогите с переводом выделенных слов. Особенно смущает "картридж". Насколько я понимаю, речь идет о старинных пушках, туда засыпают порох из бочонка, забивают пыжом и т.п. Какие там могут быть картриджи? Заранее спасибо.
Captain Roberts ended the mutiny by detaching one of the Sweet Judy’s swivel guns and aiming it at the mutineers. It was not intended to be a hand cannon, and if he had fired the thing, the recoil would probably have thrown him into the air
Some of the men and older boys were trained in firing the cannon, but since there wasn’t any gunpowder to spare for actually firing any more of the things, they made do with pushing wooden cartridges into the barrel and shouting, “Bang!”
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