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Islands to reconstruct in part the lost social fabric of those who used M. 

 Guesde's stone adze blades. 



The Caribs had two kinds of boats — a very large canonia and a small 

 couliala. both dug- out of a single trunk. The former attained a length 

 of 40 feet and ts ere 7 or 8 feet wide. They could carry fifty persons 

 with arms and baggage, and were worked with oars and sails. The 

 coulialas were not more than 20 feet long and 3 or 4 wide ; they were 

 proi)elled with jjaddles. The Indians of the Northwest Coast have the 

 same distinction of dug-outs. In the Xational Museum at Washington 

 may be seen both the immense family boat, over 60 feet long, and the 

 smaller, more shapely whaleboat, about 12 feet long, from the same 

 people, carved from the Thuja gigantea. 



Fig. 9. 



Fig. 9. A celt or blade of the simplest form, and dark brown in 

 color. In this specimen we have an example of economy in working. 

 Just as the ancient flint-workers of France began their celts by grind- 



Fig. 10. 



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Fig. 11. 



ing down the edge of a chipped core ; so the ancient West Indian levied 

 upon Nature for all the work he could extort from her, and was more 

 fortunate than his brethren of France, for Nature did his polishing for 



