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No. VI.—SWIMMING. 
i. What is the common method of swimming? 2. Are 
there any games into which swimming enters ? 3. Can the 
natives swim long distances? 4. Can they swim at a great 
speed? 4 a. Is any board or other apparatus used, as described 
in the surf swimming in E. Pacific ? 5. Are the natives expert 
divers ? 6. Do they dive weighted with a stone ? 7. How 
long can they remain under water? 8. Is this considered a 
feat ? 9. Do they dive head or feet first ? 10. Do the tribes 
inland swim as well as the coast tribes? 11. Is swimming 
taught , or is it supposed to be a natural action, like walking ? 
No. VII.—WEAVING. 
Weaving, like spinning, dates back to a very early period ; 
and the tissues found in the ancient Swiss Lake-dwellings are 
of more than one kind. The looms used for weaving vary 
considerably ; but the simplest form of complete loom may be 
thus described There is a roll, or “ yarn-beam,” on which 
the “ warp ” of unwoven thread is wound or “ beamed,” and 
another roll, or “ cloth beam,” on which the woven tissue is 
received. The “ warp,” or the threads passing from one roll 
to the other are kept in a state of tension, and each thread 
passes through an eyelet-hole in a vertical cord or “heddle.” 
The alternate heddles are attached to two separate frames, 
so that one set of alternate threads in the loom can be drawn 
away from the other, either upwards or downwards, and leave 
a space or “shed” between the two sets of threads, through 
which a shuttle can be thrown with the weft or transverse 
thread. This is then beaten up against the thread last 
thrown in, by means of a “ reed,” or grating, through the 
intervals in which the warp threads pass, and which is fixed 
in a swinging “ batten ” or “ lay,” so as to give weight to the 
blow. The two sets of warp-threads are of course alternately 
