. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865; Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865; Zoology; Zoologie. 464 EXPLANATORY INDEX. between two of the teeth, and is thus shaved down to the needle-like point which is required. A small basket shaped like a flask, but slightly flattened, is mostly carried with the quiver. This basket is used to hold the wild cotton with which the arro
. Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 [microform] : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history. Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865; Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865; Zoology; Zoologie. 464 EXPLANATORY INDEX. between two of the teeth, and is thus shaved down to the needle-like point which is required. A small basket shaped like a flask, but slightly flattened, is mostly carried with the quiver. This basket is used to hold the wild cotton with which the arrows are fitted to the bore of the blow-gun. Thus, with an equipment weighing al- together little more than three pounds, the native hunter can. QUIVER, BLOW-aUN. (iUIVEB, nOO-ARROW. carry with him a powerful gun and about three or four hundred deadly missiles. The Quiver for the heads of hogarrowa is very much smaller, and is only a piece of bamboo about seven or eight inches in length, and having a cover to guft,rd it from damp. The Indian generally ornaments it by wrapping cotton-stringg round it in patterns, as is seen in the illustration, which is taken from one of my specimens. a it. I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. London; New York : Macmillan
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