SAVAGE WEAPONS AT THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. 273 



ages. The -weapons of Timor and of the Philippines are very similar, as 



might have been anticipated. 



The African spears show a great variety. Over the large portion of 



the continent iron is either 



plentiful or readily accessi- 

 ble by means of the native 



traders. The metallurgic 



process is a direct one from 



the ore and the product is 



a steel. Weights, shapes, 



and sizes of the weapons dif- 

 fer greatly. The Bongos of 



the Upper Nile ir6 are skillful FlG - n».-2v*fon« of Timor. 



blacksmiths and make excellent lances, especially considering the crude 



character of their tools. 

 The spears of the Niani- 

 niams and Monbuttoos 177 

 are of a hastate shape, and 

 their weapons all have 

 nn. no.-Trident 0/ the rMiippines. blood-grooves, which dis- 



tinguishes them from the weapons of the Bongo and Mittoo. The Man- 



ganji spear 174 is sometimes made with 



a paddle or dibble at the end of the 



handle, and is weighted with iron rings. 

 The spear of the Kanemboo infantry 



soldier of Borneo is 7 feet in length, 



and armed below the head with a num- 

 ber of hook-shaped barbs. The Abys- 

 sinian spear is seven feet long and has 



four grooved sides. It is used either 



as a pike or a javelin. The natives 



have also a way of throwing it at close 



quarters by letting the shaft pass 



through the hand and catching the 



butt-end. The bark of a young tree 



being removed, the wood is seasoned 



by fire, greased, then hung in the sun 



to obtain the desired color. 



The hippopotamus spear of the Zam- 



besi 17 '-' is a beam four or five feet long 



armed with a spear-head or hard-wood 



spike covered with poison. The spear 



is suspended from a forked polo by a cord, which, comin 



280. 



Fig 111. — Spears of Timor. 



down close 



1TO Schweinfurth's "Africa," vol. 

 «" IUd., vol. ii, p. 27. 

 I7K Livingstone's " Zambesi," p'. 532. 



l7 » Livingstone's Zambesi, p. 1<>7; Baker's Ismailia, PI. opp., p. 135. 

 S. Mis. 54 18 



