Pre-Historic Times, As Illustrated By Ancient Remains And the Manners And Customs of Modern Savages
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They are differently armed, some having bows, and arrows headed with stoine ; others have long javelins, pointed with bone ; some again have great wooden clubs ; and some have slings, * Falkner'B Patagonia, pp. 118, 119. World, p. 80 ; Wallia'a Voyage ronnd t Fitzroy, vol. ii. p. 158. the World, p. 392; Cook's Voyage t The Voice of Pity, vol. ii. pp. to the South Pole, vol. ii. p. 187; 87, 95. Darwin's Journal, p. 236.
§ Byron's Voyage round the || Callander's Voyages, vol. iL p. 307.
Digitized... by Google HUTS. IMFLBMENT8. WEAPONS. 537 witli stone-knives, which are very sharp/' Their arrows are of hard wood, straight and well polished. They are about two feet \ortg, and are tipped with a piece of agate, obsidian, or glass; the head not being fixed to the shaft, remains in the wound, even when the arrow is drawn out. The bows are from three to four feet long, and quite plain. The string is made of twisted sinews.
Forster* found tiiem '' remarkably stupid, being incapable of understanding any of our signs, which, however, were very intelligible to the nations of the South Sea/' Wallis, in his '^Voyage round the World f,*' describes th«m as follows : '^ They were covered with seal-skins, which stunk abominably, and some of them were eating the rotten flesh and blubber raw, with a keen appetite and great seeming satisfaction/' And again he says, '^Some of our people, who were fishing with a hook and line, gave one of tiiem a fish, somewhat bigger than a herring, alive, just as it came out of the water.
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They are differently armed, some having bows, and arrows headed with stoine ; others have long javelins, pointed with bone ; some again have great wooden clubs ; and some have slings, * Falkner'B Patagonia, pp. 118, 119. World, p. 80 ; Wallia'a Voyage ronnd t Fitzroy, vol. ii. p. 158. the World, p. 392; Cook's Voyage t The Voice of Pity, vol. ii. pp. to the South Pole, vol. ii. p. 187; 87, 95. Darwin's Journal, p. 236.
§ Byron's Voyage round the || Callander's Voyages, vol. iL p. 307.
Digitized... by Google HUTS. IMFLBMENT8. WEAPONS. 537 witli stone-knives, which are very sharp/' Their arrows are of hard wood, straight and well polished. They are about two feet \ortg, and are tipped with a piece of agate, obsidian, or glass; the head not being fixed to the shaft, remains in the wound, even when the arrow is drawn out. The bows are from three to four feet long, and quite plain. The string is made of twisted sinews.
Forster* found tiiem '' remarkably stupid, being incapable of understanding any of our signs, which, however, were very intelligible to the nations of the South Sea/' Wallis, in his '^Voyage round the World f,*' describes th«m as follows : '^ They were covered with seal-skins, which stunk abominably, and some of them were eating the rotten flesh and blubber raw, with a keen appetite and great seeming satisfaction/' And again he says, '^Some of our people, who were fishing with a hook and line, gave one of tiiem a fish, somewhat bigger than a herring, alive, just as it came out of the water.
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