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between two of the teeth, and is thus shaved down to the 

 needle-like point which is required. 



A small basket shaped like a flask, but slightly flattened, is 

 mostly carried with the quiver. This basket is used to hold 

 the wild cotton with which the arrows are fitted to the bore 

 of the blow-gun. Thus, with an equipment weighing al- 

 together little more than three pounds, the native hunter can 



QUIVER, BLOW-QUN. 



QUIVER, nOO-ASBOW; 



carry with him a powerful gun and about three or four 

 hundred deadly missiles. 



The Quiver for the heads of hog-arrows is very much 

 smaller, and is only a piece of bamboo about seven or eight 

 inches in length, and having a cover to guard it from damp. 

 The Indian generally ornaments it by wrapping cotton-strings 

 round it in patterns, as is seen in the illustration, which is 

 taken from one of my specimens. 



