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long and very well made, with heads of brass, which because it was so highly- 

 colored looked like gold. All were adorned with rings of ordinary pearls and seed 

 pearls having three or four turns, placed at intervals along the pikes. Many were 

 covered in the middle (where they would rest on the shoulder and where the 

 head joined the haft) with strips of colored deerskin and along both the upper 

 and lower edges of this strip were borders of vari-colored threads with three, 

 four, five, or six rows of ordinary pearls or seed pearls which embellished them 

 greatly. 



In the second room there were only clubs such as those that we said the first 

 giant figures held, which were at the door of the temple, except that those in 

 the room being arms which were among the lord's equipment were decorated with 

 rings of ordinary pearls and seed pearls and borders of colored thread placed at 

 intervals so that the colors were blended with one another and all were inter- 

 mingled with the pearls. The other pikes [clubs?] which the giants held had no 

 ornamentation whatever. 



In another room, which was the third, there was nothing but axes like 

 those we said the giants had who were fourth in order at the door of the 

 temple. They had copper heads with a blade on one side and a diamond- 

 shaped point on the other, six inches and a hand's breadth long [respectively]. 

 Many of them had flint heads fastened solidly to the handles with copper bands. 

 These axes also had on their handles rings of ordinary pearls and seed pearls and 

 borders of colored thread. 



In another room, which was the fourth, there were broadswords made of 

 various kinds of hard woods such as those that the giants second in order 

 had, all of them being decorated with pearls and seed pearls and borders on the 

 handles and on the first third of the blades. 



The fifth room contained only staffs such as those we said the giants of 

 the third order had, but decorated with their rings of ordinary pearls and seed 

 pearls and colored borders all along the handles to where the shovel-shaped end 

 began. 



The sixth room had [of course] bows and arrows. (Garcilaso, 1723, pp. 129- 

 134.) 



Here are clubs of four types. The first, giving the order used in 

 describing the giants at the doorway, seem to have been like the 

 clubs with stone or iron points let into the end used in later times by 

 the Indians farther north and west. The second type was entirely 

 of wood. The third was also entirely of wood, but spatula- or spoon- 

 shaped. The fourth had edges like the edges of battle-axes or swords 

 either made of copper or pieces of flint. Garcilaso seems to say brass 

 instead of copper, and if they really were brass, we must suppose 

 they had been obtained from Europeans. 



We might entertain some doubts regarding the existence of such 

 clubs if it were not for the writings of the Carolina and Virginia ex- 

 plorers. Barlowe say the Algonquian Indians of eastern Carolina had 

 swords "of wood hardened," and that "they have besides a kinde of 

 club, in the end whereof they fasten the sharpe homes of a stagge, or 

 other beast" (Burrage, 1906, p. 238). The first correspond either to 

 the "swingles" or to the "battle-axes" of Talomeco, but without the 

 metal or flint edges. Hariot (1893, p. 36) mentions "flat edged trun- 

 cheons also of wood about a yard long," the "swords" of Barlowe. 



