. Floor games . nary brown paper and adornedwith chalk totems of a rude andcharacteristic kind, pour forththeir fierce and well-armed in-habitants at the intimation ofan invader. The rocks on thisisland, let me remark, havegreat mineral wealth. Amongthem are to be found not onlysheets and veins of silver paper,but great nuggets of metal,obtained by the melting downof hopelessly broken soldiers inan iron spoon. Note, too,the peculiar and romantic shellbeach of this country. It isan island of exceptional interest *. THE WONDERFUL ISLANDS 43 to the geologist and scientificexplorer. The Indians, y
. Floor games . nary brown paper and adornedwith chalk totems of a rude andcharacteristic kind, pour forththeir fierce and well-armed in-habitants at the intimation ofan invader. The rocks on thisisland, let me remark, havegreat mineral wealth. Amongthem are to be found not onlysheets and veins of silver paper,but great nuggets of metal,obtained by the melting downof hopelessly broken soldiers inan iron spoon. Note, too,the peculiar and romantic shellbeach of this country. It isan island of exceptional interest *. THE WONDERFUL ISLANDS 43 to the geologist and scientificexplorer. The Indians, you ob-serve, have domesticated oneleaden and one wooden cow. This is how the game wouldbe set out. Then we buildships and explore these islands,but in these pictures the shipsare represented as already arriv-ing. The ships are built outof our wooden bricks on flatkeels made of two wooden piecesof 9 x 4! inches, which are veryconvenient to push about overthe floor. Captain G. P. steaming into the bay be-tween the eastern and western
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