. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . ndon with rope made from a kind of wild hemp whichgrows hereabout in great quantity. INDIAN UTENSILS AND TOOLS 69 The Indian women make this wild hemp into twineor rope by twisting the fibers between their hands,working it smooth around the trunk of a tree, and thenthey color it red, yellow, or black. Perhaps you will ask how, with hatchets of stonesuch as I have described, the savages can cut down atree. They build a firearound the roots ofwhatever tree is to becut down, and with aswab made of wildhemp, keep the upperportion of the trunkwe
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . ndon with rope made from a kind of wild hemp whichgrows hereabout in great quantity. INDIAN UTENSILS AND TOOLS 69 The Indian women make this wild hemp into twineor rope by twisting the fibers between their hands,working it smooth around the trunk of a tree, and thenthey color it red, yellow, or black. Perhaps you will ask how, with hatchets of stonesuch as I have described, the savages can cut down atree. They build a firearound the roots ofwhatever tree is to becut down, and with aswab made of wildhemp, keep the upperportion of the trunkwet, so the blaze willnot go above the circlethey count on the flames haveeaten into the wood acertain distance, thecharred part is scrapedaway with flint stonesor shells, and again is the fire applied, the workmen scraping and burninguntil the tree has been cut completely through. In the same way do they make the big boats; but, ofcourse, in this case it is necessary to cut the tree toform the length, and then the log is hollowed by fire. STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA and by scraping, until it is a shell no more than aninch in thickness. I have heard it said that two Indians, working tenfull days, can make one of these big boats, which lookso clumsy, but are handled with such ease even inswiftly running water. CANOES OF BARK The canoes made of bark from the birch tree arewonders in the way of lightness and swiftness. Jethroand I, hoping some day to be able to buy one, have
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