APPENDIX. 
known by fuppofing the parts joined together at the lettered ends : 
the (haft confifts of two pieces, a large and a fmall one, joined 
by the gum : and the head is compofed of four flicks inferted 
into the fhaft with gum, and tied together above with flips of 
bark, which are afterwards tightened by little wedges, driven 
within the bandage : each of thefe flicks is terminated by the 
tooth of a fifh, very fharp, and fluck on by a lump of the gum 
cement: the fhaft of this inftrument is pundured in many 
places v/ith very fmall holes, to the pith in the centre, but for 
what purpofe is not known. 
H. is a Hatchet, of which the head is a very hard black pebble 
ftpne, rubbed down at one end to an edge ; the handle is a flick 
of elaflic wood, fpHt, which being bent round the middle of the 
ftone, and the extremities brought together, is flrongly bound 
with flips of bark, and holds the head very firmly, as fmiths 
chifTels are held by hazel flicks in Europe. 
S. is a kind of blunt Sword, of hard wood, like the head of 
the fpear A. 
F. feems to be an inflrument of ofFence ; it is a flick of the 
natural growth, with the bark on ; the root of which is cut 
round into a large knob; the end F. is made rough with notches, 
that it may be held more firmly in the hand. 
R. is 
