830 General Notes. [September, 
jecting from the shaft. The last contrivance is used when the 
line has a float attached to it. 
Harpoons of the second class are more simple. The shaft is 
never fitted with an ice-pick, but sometimes has feathering at the 
butt like an arrow. The fore-shaft is usually of greater diameter 
than the shaft, and its socket receives the skank of the head, 
which has flat faces, sharp point and sides, and one or more uni- 
lateral or pairs of bilateral barbs. It is usually made of bone or 
ivory, and the /ive is fastened to it by passing the end through a 
hole in the shank and tying a knot on the opposite side. 
GLOSSARY OF THE HARPOON, 
Sgr a a line joining the loose shaft of the harpoon to the fore-shatt, z 
ing all the sections of a harpoon so that if a part is broken off it will not be 
at 
BARBED-HARPOON, a harpoon designed to hold the animal struck by one or more lat- 
eral barbs on the head. 
BLADE-SLIT, a ‘‘saw cut” in the front of a harpoon or spear-head into which the 
blade is fitted. 
Bopy, the bone or ivory portion of a toggle-head. 
Bopy-Barg, the sharp spur or spurs in which the body of a toggle-head terminates. 
ForE-SHAFT, the anterior end of a harpoon or spear-shaft when made ina separate 
piece and of different material. 
caer a Site? r for capturing aquatic es designed so as a eg the eet xd 
a barbed or a toggle-head. Harpoons may be t r dar pekari a; 
the 1 oi or from a ee stick, and veel a variety of rina according 
form and special u 
HARPOON-BLADE, a ens lanceolate or triangular blade of stone or metal forming 
the cutting portion of a harpoon-head. 
HARPOON-FLOAT, an inflated a or bladder separ to the harpoon, either to the 
line or to the shaft, to act 
HARPOON-SHAFT, the wooden portion of a sical or, more generally, the entire 
portio n behind the head. 
HARPOON-HEAD, the part of the apen which enters the animal and holds it by 
barbs or other contrivan: 3 
N-LINE, a line, one end = which is fastened to the harpoon, the ve sr 
being either attached to a float or lashed to the shaft or held by the hunter. = 
IcE-PICK, a “ bayonet ” usually of walrus-ivory, bone or antler, fitted to the hin 
. end of a harpoon and used for chipping holes in the 2 
LEADER, a short line ene to the harpoon-head ; to it the line is so attached 
will, 
to be removable os 
LINE-GR furrows on the sides of a toggle-head extending from the pore of 
tatiana into which he line or the leader fits, so as to facilitate the e 
of the head into 
. 
of 
Kpr pT a peti through a toggle-head to receive the leader on one end 
Linz-noox, a peg on the e harpoon- shaft to receive a 7 or eyelet in the harpoon- 
-line when the head is in place and the line draw a 
_ Loosg-suart, a spindle-shaped rod of ivory or other of substance between 
one Prgj hcad and the fore-shalt of a harpoon to prevent the breaking of the sha 
