Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . cocoa-nut leaflet, floor mats and a finer kind ofbaskets from the pandanus leaf. Twenty or thirtypieces of the rib of the cocoa-nut leaflet, fastened 276 NINETEEN YEARS IN POLYNESIA, close together with a thread of cinnet, form a comb,Oval tubs are made by hollowing out a block ofwood. Clubs, three feet long, from the iron-wood,or something else that is heavy. Spears,eight feet long, are made from the cocoa-nut tree, and barbed with the sting ofthe ray-fish; a wicked contrivance, forit is mean
Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . cocoa-nut leaflet, floor mats and a finer kind ofbaskets from the pandanus leaf. Twenty or thirtypieces of the rib of the cocoa-nut leaflet, fastened 276 NINETEEN YEARS IN POLYNESIA, close together with a thread of cinnet, form a comb,Oval tubs are made by hollowing out a block ofwood. Clubs, three feet long, from the iron-wood,or something else that is heavy. Spears,eight feet long, are made from the cocoa-nut tree, and barbed with the sting ofthe ray-fish; a wicked contrivance, forit is meant to break off from the spearin the body of the unhappy victim. Innine cases out of ten, there is no way ofcutting it out, and the poor creature diesin agony. The Samoans are an agriculturalrather than a manufacturing people. In
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