. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . twenty or more full grown men lay idly on the groundwatching them, but without offering to lend any aid,and yet they are by no means selfish in their dealingswith us white people. INDIAN UTENSILS AND TOOLS They have pots and kettles made of clay, and fash-ioned much like our own, save that the vessels havea rough surface, are very thin, and so soft that onecan cut them with a knife. These Indians make bread of meal from corn, and 68 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA. the grinding is done in mortars made by cutting ahollow in a smooth rock. Just fancy
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . twenty or more full grown men lay idly on the groundwatching them, but without offering to lend any aid,and yet they are by no means selfish in their dealingswith us white people. INDIAN UTENSILS AND TOOLS They have pots and kettles made of clay, and fash-ioned much like our own, save that the vessels havea rough surface, are very thin, and so soft that onecan cut them with a knife. These Indians make bread of meal from corn, and 68 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA. the grinding is done in mortars made by cutting ahollow in a smooth rock. Just fancy trying to scoopout the middle of a huge piece of stone by rubbing it with other stones!I have not beenable to learn how much time * is necessary to spendin making one ofthese mortars, butverily I should say a whole life might be spentbefore the task was finished. It surely is astonishing to see the many articleswhich these brown men have made of stone, and withno other means of fashioning them save by rubbingone rock against Their arrow heads are offlint, and worked into shape by chipping off tiny pieceswith a yet larger piece of flint, until a bit shaped likea spear head, no more than one inch long and a quarterinch thick, has been made. Their hatchets are clumsy affairs, and I do notwonder that they are eager to trade with us for tools ofiron. I have seen again and again stones shaped likea wedge, with notches on the biggest end, in whichwas fastened a split stick for a handle, and boundon
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