The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . axe he would cut it downand shorten it to theproper length for a han-dle. The Indians had noiron. For knives they hadpieces of bone, sharpstones, and shells. The Indian procured Making firtire by twirling the endof a stick against anotherpiece of wood. To givethis twirling stick a quickmotion, he wrapped a bow-iNDiAN KINDLING FIRE. stHug about it, aud then drew the bowswiftly to and most remarkable product of Indian skill was the ; this was made in some tribes by burning out alog, little by lit

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The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . axe he would cut it downand shorten it to theproper length for a han-dle. The Indians had noiron. For knives they hadpieces of bone, sharpstones, and shells. The Indian procured Making firtire by twirling the endof a stick against anotherpiece of wood. To givethis twirling stick a quickmotion, he wrapped a bow-iNDiAN KINDLING FIRE. stHug about it, aud then drew the bowswiftly to and most remarkable product of Indian skill was the ; this was made in some tribes by burning out alog, little by little, and scraping the charred parts withshells, luitil the dug-out canoe was sufficiently deepand rightly shaped. Many canoes made in this way,without anyother toolsthan shells i-<-. One Indian is seenscraping out thecharred wood, an-other is fanning thefire, while a thirdis burning down a and sharp stones, would carry from twenty to fortymen. The Northern tribes constructed a more beautiful 76 HISTORY OF THE UXITED STATES.

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