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A TAMAHAUKE, or Brafilian Eighting-CLUB. Made 
of Bra file- W ood. About an Eln long. The Handle, above 
two inches and ' broad 5 in the middle, two • and four at 
the other end. Hath two double or fquare Edges * of an 
inch thick. The broad end wrought on both lides with 
two Tables or Areas of fmall lines obliquely eroded, and 
fill'd up with a chalky fubdance to make them appear. In 
the middle of which, feems to be a rude Reprefentation 
of fome one of their Idols , whofe help they expect. 
A Weft-Indian TARGET. Given by II. Whifilef 
Efq;- 
A Weft-Indian BOW, ARROWS, and QUIVER. The 
Bow is made of AJh. Near two yards long. In the middle, 
not an inch broad, but high-back’d and belly’d, fc. above 
an inch, as our Bows. But betwixt the middle and the 
ends, ol a different fbape, fc. above an inch and I broad, 
and not much above 1 an inch thick. The firing made of 
a fort of Catgut ; but confiding of three of them hard 
twifled together, looks like thick Packthread. 
Some of the Arrows are almoil an Eln long. • Made of a 
fine fort of unjoynted and hollow Cane 5 about the thick- 
nefs of one of our Arrows, and feather’d in the fame man¬ 
ner. The Notch fortify’d with a Swath of fplit Quill , made 
rite with a fine fort of flew. In the other end of the Cane, is 
fallen d a brown Stick, about feven or eight inches long, 
and the Cane there kept firm from cracking, with a Swath 
and Clew, as the Notch. This Stick is ufually knoted, for 
greater flrength: and always Arm’d. One of them, with, 
a curious Shark’s Tooth near an inch long, and indented or 
ferrated on both edges: a feurvy Weapon. The reft with 
Bones, Stones, and pieces of Metal,ufually fhaped not much 
unlike the faid Tooth. 
The Quiver made of the Skin of the Bead, fomewhat 
like the Pig-Badger. With a round piece of wood for a 
Bottom 5 and in the middle of the wood, an Iron Wreft, to 
keep it from the ground. 
A Pot of MACASSAR POYSON. Given by Sir Phil. 
Vernatti. With this the people of the IJland commonly 
poyfon their Arrows. They have of feveral forts 5 the 
mod dangerous faid (a) to be made of the juyee of certain ^Tavern. 
Trees in Borneo. But in This are plainly to be feen the Legs tV'c/iT 
and 
