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Updated: June 23, 2025
The first night, while passing through the low, hot country near the lake, Roger had cut a strong bamboo; together with a bundle of smaller rods, suitable for arrows. Bathalda had brought with him a bag of sharp obsidian arrowheads, and some feathers for winging them, together with a bowstring of twice the ordinary strength.
The rest of you get under shelter of the bulwarks. "I have heard that these fellows poison their spears and arrowheads," he continued to our hero. "Will they come back, do you think?" questioned Bob. "Perhaps we must remain on guard." The next few hours were very anxious ones on board of the Dart. Night came, and the hostile natives showed no sign of returning.
A great part of his time also was spent in breaking bones and stones into small pieces for his father to work up into arrowheads. Umpl hated that. He would not have minded doing the fine work about it, but just to crack bones all his spare time was not joyful; and, now that there was no fire to pull wood for, he had just so much more spare time for bone-cracking.
"I thoughts it not impossible I might find something to repay me for my trouble, flint arrowheads, a knife, or a tomahawk; but I little thought of what these cruel savages had left there, a miserable wounded captive, bound by the long locks of her hair to the stem of a small tree!
There were stuffed birds, arrowheads, old bits of pottery, and many Indian baskets. "And look at that snake skin! Ugh, Tommy, how could you bear to touch the wriggling thing?" exclaimed Joy with a shudder of disgust. "It had stopped wriggling when I touched it," returned Tommy. "Can't say as I like them squirmy, myself." "And what is this, Tommy?" called Enid.
There is no sufficient flavor of humanity in the soil out of which we grow. At Cantabridge, near the sea, I have once or twice picked up an Indian arrowhead in a fresh furrow. At Canoe Meadow, in the Berkshire Mountains, I have found Indian arrowheads. So everywhere Indian arrowheads. Whether a hundred or a thousand years old, who knows? who cares?
In Shetland, stone axes are religiously preserved in every cottage as a cheap and simple substitute for lightning-rods. In Cornwall, the stone hatchets and arrowheads not only guard the house from thunder, but also act as magical barometers, changing colour with the changes of the weather, as if in sympathy with the temper of the thunder-god.
About a mile from the claim, they met Professor Gillette. He had been far over one of the hills in search of the ruins. Half a dozen arrowheads were his reward. He was preparing a belated dinner in the creek-bed, over a smouldering fire. The girls were impatient to go on, and dragged the Judge away from his friend. "Come on up over that hill when you finish your lunch," invited the Judge.
Nearly every weapon in the one collection had its counterpart in the other, the mauls or celts of stone, the spearheads of flint or jasper, the arrowheads of flint or bone, and the saws of jagged stone, showing how human ingenuity, under like circumstances, had resorted to like expedients.
The seal cylinder, which, as Herodotus tells us, every person of position carried about his person, and which, when impressed on a clay tablet, served as his signature, was buried with the dead as an ornament that had a personal value. The staff which the man was in the habit of carrying is found in the grave, and also such weapons as arrowheads and spears.
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