A smith’s shop. 
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dressed sheep-skin, which emitted air through the neck by means 
of a clay pipe bound thereto ; this conveyed air to the fire, the other 
end of the skin being open, each side bound to a stick ; these were 
worked by a boy, who, sitting between them, manipulated them 
with his hands. The regularity of the blast was kept up by an 
alternate movement ; that is to say, one of the skins having been 
drawn to its full length, the sticks held apart by the opening of the 
hands, it became filled with air, when the sticks being closed by com- 
HAMMER AND ANVIL. 
pression of the hand and forced towards the pipe, sent out the air. 
The handless hammer is held like we hold the pestle of a mortar, 
and the anvil is fixed upright in a block. The sledge-hammer is a 
round or oblong stone, ordinarily a piece of granite. 
There were many fine trees in the vicinity, amongst them was 
the ebony. I broke off a branch to make a sketch of it. The 
fruit it bore was small and hard, resembling the sloe of the black- 
thorn, the thorns strong and about one inch in length. Whilst 
Petherick was shooting doves, some large red ants stung me severely. 
Heavy rain in the afternoon. The cordage of all the boats is in a 
wretched condition from constant immersion. A large party of our 
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