. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . (Angmagsalik Eskii Pig Set. E. Greenland. Copied from G. Holms Ethnologisk FIRE MAKING APPARATUS. 559 In the prelimiuary report, Mr. Holm gives the time at almost lessthan half a miunte. It was made by the Eskimo, Illinguaki, and hiswife, who, on being presented with a box of matches, gave up theirdrill, saying that they had no farther use for it. In the same report Mr. Holm gives an interesting note. He says:This fire apparatus is certaiuly better developed than that which has been de-scribed and drawn by
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . (Angmagsalik Eskii Pig Set. E. Greenland. Copied from G. Holms Ethnologisk FIRE MAKING APPARATUS. 559 In the prelimiuary report, Mr. Holm gives the time at almost lessthan half a miunte. It was made by the Eskimo, Illinguaki, and hiswife, who, on being presented with a box of matches, gave up theirdrill, saying that they had no farther use for it. In the same report Mr. Holm gives an interesting note. He says:This fire apparatus is certaiuly better developed than that which has been de-scribed and drawn by Nordenskiold from the Chukcliis (Voy. of the Vega, u, p. l2fi).The principle is the same as the Greenlanders drill, which they enii)loy for makingholes in wood and bone, and which is furnished with a bow and month-piece.* (). Fig. Skt. (Augmaesalilt Eskimo, E. Greenland. G. HhIitis Etlinologirk of Anginagsnlikerne.) The central holes of this hearth are worthy of note, occurring in thefarthest eastern locality of the Eskimo, and in Labrador. Western Greenland.—The material in the Museum from westernGreenland is very scanty. The southern coast has been settled for solong a time that the Eskimo and many of their arts have almost be-come extinct. No view of fire-making in Greenland would be completewithout Daviss quaint description of it, made three hundred years agobut it was the upper end of the spindle that was wet in Trane. AGreenlander begaune to kindle a fire in this manner: He tooke apiece of a boord wherein was a hole half thorow ; into that hole he putsthe end of a round sticke like unto a bedstatte, wetting the end thereofin Trane, and in a fashion of a turner with a piece of lether, by hisviolent motion doeth very speedily produce Eskimo graves and village sites yield evidence al
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