116 Transactions, — Miscellaneous; 
oblong and pointed at each end, being made of a soft and unctuous soap- 
rock (simectites ), which could easily be rubbed into that shape. These exactly 
fitted the loop in the middle of the sling, and were kept in a wallet or 
pocket of coarse cloth, strongly woven of a kind of grass, which was tied on 
about the middle. Their shape gives them a striking resemblance to the 
glandes plumbee of the Romans." —Forster's Voyage, Vol. IL, pp. 278, 279, 
885, 
Appendiz B.—(See p. 111). 
I here give an interesting extract from ** Turnbull’s Voyage Round the 
World ” (1801-4), as it bears a little on the subject before us :— 
“A chief of note named Te Pahi, with five of his sons, who resided at the 
Bay of Islands, wished to see Port Jackson. They were taken by Captain 
Stewart in his ship to Norfolk Island, where they received every attention 
from the commandant and inhabitants; and after remaining there some 
time they were received on board- H.M.S. * Buffalo, to be conveyed to Port 
Jackson. On their arrival, Te Pahi was introduced by Captain Houstin to 
His Excellency and the officers at the Government House, where he con- 
tinued to reside during his stay in the colony. 
“ Shortly after his arrival, a number of the natives assembled in the 
vicinity of Sydney for the interment of Carrawaye (whose death was 
occasioned by a spear wound in the knee), who the night before was con- 
veyed here in a shell composed of strips of bark ; and the funeral obsequies 
being over, a war spectacle ensued, when an intended sacrifice to vengeance 
(known by the name of Blewit) was singled out to answer for the desperate 
wound inflieted by him upon young Baker. The animosity of his assailants 
was uncommonly remarkable; their party was far the more powerful, and, 
confident of their superiority, took every advantage of their numbers. The 
flight of spears was seldom less than six, and managed with a precision that 
seemed to promise certain fatality. After 170 had been thus thrown, ten 
of the most powerful stationed themselves so as nearly to encircle the cul- 
prit, and front and rear darted their weapons at the same instant. His 
activity and strong presence of mind increased with the danger; five he 
dexterously caught with his feeble target, and the others he miraenlously 
managed to parry off. One of his friends, enraged at the proceedings, threw 
a spear, and received ten in return. Blewit turned one of his assailant’s 
spears, and passed it through the body of old Whittaker; the affray then 
became general, but terminated without further mischief. 
«Te Pahi, who with several of his sons was present, regarded their war- 
fare with contempt; he frequently discovered much impatience at the length 
of intervals between the flights, and by signs exhorted them to dispateh; ' 
