. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. a peculiarity about these arrowswhich is worthy of notice. Some time agoan arrow was patented in England, whichhad the feathers placed spirally upon the endof the shaft, so as to give it a rapidly revolv-ing movement when discharged from thebow. The principle was exactly that of thescrew which is applied to steam vessels;
. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. a peculiarity about these arrowswhich is worthy of notice. Some time agoan arrow was patented in England, whichhad the feathers placed spirally upon the endof the shaft, so as to give it a rapidly revolv-ing movement when discharged from thebow. The principle was exactly that of thescrew which is applied to steam vessels; andthose who used the arrow acknowledged thatthe spiral setting of the feathers not onlyincreased the power of flight, but enabledthe archer to drive his arrow through the wind with greater ease and certainty thancould be obtained with the ordinarily feath-ered arrow. There is a very old saying thatthere is nothing new under the sun, and thisis the case with the arrow in question, thesavages of Northern America having adoptedthe same principle long ago. In their arrowsthe feathers are set spirally, with a bold curve,and there is really no difference between theweapon of the savage and the toy of civiliza-tion, than the greater neatness and higherfinish of the (3.) BOW OF THE AHTS.(See page 1350.) (5.) HEADDRESS.(See page 1365.) (6.) PADDLES. (See page 1363.) (1357) INGENIOUS FISH ARROW. 1359 The lower figure represents the arrowwhich is used for killing fish. In this weap-on the point is also of bone, but is verymuch longer, and is double, the two halvesdiverging considerably from each other, andbeing barbed on the inner surface. It isfirmly lashed to the shaft, and their diver-gence is given by means of two pegs, whichare driven between the shaft and the twoportions of the point. If a fish be struck bythis ingenious weapon, it cannot possiblyescape, the elastic points contracting vio-lently and holding the fish between them. It is worthy of notice that a police spear
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