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Levers^ &c. — They use wooden levers and cant-hooks for rolling logs. 

 They also have some American blocks and tackle. 



Tool-hoards and boxes. — They have no tool-boards. Any common box 

 answers for holding the smaller tools, and the large ones are kept any- 

 where about the house. 



II. — Impletnents of war and the cliase. 



A. — Striking. 



Clubs of various forms and material. — Formerly they made such of 

 wood and stones large enough to be handled easily. 



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 B. — Throwing-weapons. 



Slings and shots or stones. — Slings and stones are used as playthings 

 by the boys, and formerly by the young men in killing ducks. 



Fire-pots. — Those filled with pitch-wood were formerly used to set 

 on fire houses into which an enemy had fled. A part of the besieging 

 force would attack one side of the house in order to draw the attention 

 of the besieged away from the opposite side, when the party with these 

 fire-pots would approach, set on fire the pitch-wood, throw it on the 

 roof, and as the besieged attempted to escape they were killed with 

 spears, clubs, knives, or were shot. 



C. — Weapons for gutting and striking. 



Battle-axes, tomahawks, and the liJce. — None are in use now. Formerly 

 they had them made of stone, and, after they were able to obtain them, 

 liatchets were used, though not to throw. 



D. — Thrusting- WEAPONS. 



Lances and lance-heads. — These, about eight feet long, were formerly 

 used in both war and the chase. The points were stone, iron, bone, yew, 

 or ironwood. 



Harpoons and points. — These w^ere formerly used in fishing. See be- 

 yond, under " Fishing-implements." 



Daggers. — They formerly made them of files or other suitable iron 

 which they could obtain, and they are used some now. 



Spears and points. — A duck-spear, which is fifteen or twenty feet long, 

 with four or five prongs at the end, so far apart that a duck may be 

 caught between them. At the end of each prong is a piece of steel 

 about six inches long, made from an old file, with a few very coarse 

 teeth, which are on the outside so that they will not injure the body of 

 the bird, and yet will catch among the feathers. They use these spears 

 by night, going in their canoes, making a kind of dark lantern, so that 

 the duck will not see the men. (See Fig. M, Plate 23.) 



