Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel . THE PARAGUAYAN CHACO 67 and mixed with saliva, then formed into cakes andstrung on a string for convenience. Fire is obtainedby means of a flint and steel or by rubbing two piecesof a soft kind of wood together, one piece being, soto speak, drilled into the other by the palms of thehands. Gourds, naturally, play a very useful part inthe domestic menage. Musical instruments are few innumber, and comprise a bamboo flute, bone andwooden whistles, drums, and a kind of crude bamboo makes a very effective knife, andeven at the present
Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel . THE PARAGUAYAN CHACO 67 and mixed with saliva, then formed into cakes andstrung on a string for convenience. Fire is obtainedby means of a flint and steel or by rubbing two piecesof a soft kind of wood together, one piece being, soto speak, drilled into the other by the palms of thehands. Gourds, naturally, play a very useful part inthe domestic menage. Musical instruments are few innumber, and comprise a bamboo flute, bone andwooden whistles, drums, and a kind of crude bamboo makes a very effective knife, andeven at the present day hard wood knives are preferredfor some A Crude Fiddle The Indians have no knowledge of writing, but theyhave roadway signs which are perfectly intelligible tothemselves. The principal weapons, both of the chaseand of war, are bows, arrows and a heavy hard-woodclub. The arrows are made from cane, with barbedheads of various hard woods, with two feathers. Garden-ing on a large scale does not hold out many attractions,for nature and the insect world seem to combine inwaging constant war on the unfortunate the Indians are nomads, dwellings are erected onlyas temporary shelters from storm or heat. One kindof hut is circular in form and composed of branches,rushes, grass, and palm leaves ; another kind is madeof mats which the owner transports from place to placewith his other possessions. 68 THE SAVAGE TRIBES OF *?j,7ii9i(auift Strange as it may seem the chief means of subsistenceof the native Indians is by fishing ; but the Chaco is aland of contradictions. The reason for this, however,is not far to find. The har
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