Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his motion produced, began to. blaze ; he then laid it down in a place conve- nient for his purpose, inclosing a spark of it in another quantity of grass and so continued his course. The weapons of these savages, as we have already intimated, are clubs and spears. The latter are sometimes pointed with a sharp piece of the same kind of reed of which the shafts are made, but more frequently with the sharp bone of the sting-ray. At first the British colonists considered these spears as very trivial weapons, but it is now known that they are capable of inflicting grievous and mortal wounds. Though not deficient in personal cou- rage the New Hollanders have never ne