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Updated: May 3, 2025
And, as for the spear-heads and the blades of the axes, they were so rust- eaten that little more than a rough jagged indication of their original shape remained. The earthen jars, of which there were twenty-four, next claimed Ned's attention.
She talked of the "good white man" who had lived in the cave when Muata was a boy. "Often have I sat here and talked with him, and well do I remember his teaching." "Let us hear, mother," said Compton. "He taught us how to till the land, so that it would produce other crops than manioc. The men he showed how to win iron from the rock, and how to forge the spear-heads and the hoes for the tilling.
Ice-chisels, flint hatchets, and spear-heads may have slipped accidentally through holes kept constantly open, and the recovery of a lost treasure once sunk in the bed of the ice-bound stream, inevitably swept away with gravel on the breaking up of the ice in the spring, would be hopeless.
Now, the river was as busy as the land, lights swimming hither and thither; steamboats with ropes of tiny stars bespangling their dark bulk and a white electric glare in the bow, low boats with lights that sent wavering spear-heads into the shadow beneath.
Stone moulds for casting the early forms of weapons have been found, but, as the art of metalworking became perfected, the use of sand moulds was discovered, with the result that there are no extant examples of moulds for casting the more developed forms of weapons. The bronze weapons celts, swords, and spear-heads are often highly decorated.
They say there is an ingenious artist who makes flint arrow-heads and stone axes for the benefit of English antiquarians, and earns good profits by it: I should like to give him an order for ribbed obsidian razors and spear-heads; I don't think he would make much of them.
Every animal that died suddenly was killed by the dart of the fairies, or, in the language of the people, was 'shot-a-dead. Flint arrows and spear-heads went by the name of 'faery dairts.... When an animal died suddenly the canny woman of the district was sent for to search for the 'faery dairt, and in due course she found one, to the great satisfaction of the owner of the dead animal."
Some straight-edged specimens have been classed as spear-heads, but they closely resemble certain ancient bronze swords of China. As for bronze arrow-heads, they occur alike in Yamato sepulchres and in the soil, so that no special inference is warranted in their case.
While he was speaking, the noise increased. Never did I hear such savage shrieks, cries, and howls. "The people are cutting themselves with knives, and flints, and spear-heads, to show their grief for their dead chief," observed Dick, after he had taken another look outside the hut. He sat down, and seemed considering what he should do.
In the central chamber there were broken pots, a few bronze spear-heads, very green and brittle, and a mass of burnt bones. The doctor said that they were the bones of horses. On the top of all this litter, with his head between his knees, there sat a huge skeleton.
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