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to the Soutli Sea Islands ; at any rate it is found there. Fig. 28 

 shows it as used in Fakaafo or Bowditch Island, differing from 

 the Swiss form only in being ai-med with a stone instead of a 

 steel point, and in having no .hole through the cross-piece.^ 



Fig. 27. 



Fig. 28. 



Mr. Turner describes it in the neighbouring Samoan or Navi- 

 gators' Islands, as pointed with a nail or a sail needle, got from 

 the foreigners,^ but the specimen presented by him to the 

 Hunterian Museum at Glasgow has a stone point. The natives 

 use it for drilling their fish-hooks made of shell ; for which pur- 

 pose, as for drilling holes in china, it is peculiarly adapted, the 

 lightness and evenness of its pressure lessening the danger of 

 cracking these brittle materials. One would think that this 

 quahty would make the pump-drill particularly unsuitable for 

 fire-making ; but, nevertheless, by making it very large and 

 heavy, it has been turned to this service in North America, 

 among the Iroquois Indians. Fig. 29 (drawn to a small scale) re- 

 presents their apparatus, which is thus described by Mr. Lewis 

 H. Morgan : — " This is an Indian invention, and of great anti- 

 quity. ... It consisted of an upright shaft, about four feet in 

 length, and an inch in diameter, with a small wheel set upon 



1 Wilkes, TJ. S. Exp., toI. v. p. 17. ^ Turner, p. 273. 



