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Title: The story of Captain Cook's three voyages round the world
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, M
Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779 Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Contributing Library: Scott - York University Libraries
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rves of fighting-men to take the place of the killed and wounded. TheIvahah, for travelling, was always double, with a smallhouse, on a stage like that of the sea-boats, for its occu-pants. The fishing Ivahah was rarely thus arranged.Masts and sails of a not very elaborate kind were usedfor both. The paddles for rowing had long handles, withbroad, flat blades, and were wielded with such good willas to shoot the vessel rapidly on its course. The boats,owing to their construction, were leaky. Their length,together with the height of the head and stern, renderedthem easy to launch or land through the surf. The only tools possessed by the natives for boat-building, house-building, felling timber, and all othermechanical work, were a stone adze, a chisel or gouge ofbone, a coarse file of coral, and a fine one of ray-skin,used with coral sand. The adze varied in weight from sixor eight pounds, to a few ounces ; the former being forrough, the latter for fine work and carving. For the chisel,
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ARMS AND INSTRUMENTS—SOCIETY ISLANDS. TAHITI AND ITS PEOPLE. 21 a mans arm-bone, one of those between the wrist and theelbow, was preferred. Not one morsel of iron had they.Xo wonder the poor creatures could not help stealing nailsand hatchets, when they came in their way. Our illustration groups a number of native arms andinstruments of the Society Islands: adzes of various sizes,the head strongly bound to the handle; long, slender har-poons for striking fish; a lance head ; chisel; tools fortattooing—one would not like an hours tapping of thoseteeth into ones skin ; flutes, and what looks like Pandeanpipes ; truncheon, with loop to secure it to the wrist; andthe instrument used for pounding bread-fruit. The felling of a tree, of, perhaps, eight feet in girth, wasa work of labour as well as of skill, with these miserablestone adzes; many days, and many hands, were requiredfor it. But little strokes fell great oaks, and so it wasdone at last. When down, it was split into planks, t

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