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In forwai'ding two of the oliviiie-basalt missiles from 

 Gwiu-ap Village, Central Tanjia, the late Mr. W. H. Truss 

 wrote: — "One of their old throwing stones, which were 

 much used many years ago, but are not now made." At the . 

 village in question these missiles were known as Kasso-iraso.^^ 



One of the first wi'iters to call attention to these Tanna 

 stone throwing sticks was, in all probabilitj', the Rev. Dr. Gr. 

 Turner, who said, "the k(iirn>< is a long piece of stone, which 

 they throw with deadlj' precission when they are within twentj' 

 yards of their victim." And again : — " It is about the length 

 of an ordinary counting-house ruler, only twice as tliick."!^ 



Commander J. G. Goodenough, R.N., saw these weapons 

 in tlie hands of the Hill Tannese at Port Resolution. "The 

 article whicli takes most trouble to make is, I suppose, the 

 kawass, or throwing stone, about a foot long, and of the 

 thickness of a thick round i-uler."-^' 



On Futuna, or Erronan Island, no great distance from 

 Tanna, coral takes the place of olivine-basalt. The first in 

 our collection from this locality was presented by Capt. G. 

 Braithwaite, of the " Dajspring " (No. 1 in the previous 

 list.)2i 



The coral missiles are invariably straight, and of much 

 larger bulk ihan the basalt sticks of Tanna. Two genera 

 are recognisable, Astrira and Ca'Ion'ci. The colonies from 

 which the missiles were prepared must have been of consider- 

 able size, possibly from blocks from the upraised bed of the 

 island, where " there are traces of four or tive different 

 upheavals." -- 



1* Also spelt cawasse — " The men, throwing away their speai's, bows, 

 and cawasses, formed themselves into a circle " (Palmer — Kidnapping 

 in the S. Seas, 1871, p. 37. 



19 Turner — Nineteen Years in Polynesia, 1861, p.i>. 23 and 81. 



20 Goodenough — Journal of 1876, p. 278. 



"1 Kamsay — Abst. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 29tli Oct., 1894, p. v. 

 - Steel— The New Hebrides and Christian Missions, 1880, p. 129. 



