Researches into the early history of Mankind and the development of Civilization . oved apparatus, for atthis day it is used by the wild Veddahs of Ceylon, a race socapable of resisting foreign innovation that they have not learntto smoke tobacco.^ It prevails, or has done so within moderntimes, through great part of South Africa,^ and it was in useamong the Guanches of the Canary Islands in the seventeenth ^ Cook, First Voy. H., Tol. iii. p. 234. Angas, S. Australia, pi. Marsden, p. 60. ^ Kotzebue, toI. iii. p. 154. ?* Cook, Third Voy., vol. ii. p. 513. Kracheninrdkow, p. 30. 0 Tennent,
Researches into the early history of Mankind and the development of Civilization . oved apparatus, for atthis day it is used by the wild Veddahs of Ceylon, a race socapable of resisting foreign innovation that they have not learntto smoke tobacco.^ It prevails, or has done so within moderntimes, through great part of South Africa,^ and it was in useamong the Guanches of the Canary Islands in the seventeenth ^ Cook, First Voy. H., Tol. iii. p. 234. Angas, S. Australia, pi. Marsden, p. 60. ^ Kotzebue, toI. iii. p. 154. ?* Cook, Third Voy., vol. ii. p. 513. Kracheninrdkow, p. 30. 0 Tennent, Ceylon, vol. ii. p. 451. Bailey in Tr. Eth. Soc, 1863, p. 291. Casalis, p. 129. Klemm, C. W., part i. p. 67. FIRE, COOKING, AND VESSELS. 239 century.^ In North America it is described among Esquimauxand Indian tribes.^ It wasin use in Mexico,^ and , taken from an ancientMexican picture-writing,shows the drill being twirl-ed; while fire, drawn in theusual conventional manner,comes out from the holewhere the point was in use in CentralAmerica,^ in the West In-. Fig. 22. dies,^ and in South America, down as far as the Straits ofMagellan.^ The name of fire-driU has not, however, been adoptedmerely with reference to this simplest form. This rude instru-ment is, as may weU be supposed, very wasteful of time andpower, and it has been improved by several contrivances whichso closely correspond to those applied to boring-tools, that themost convenient plan is to classify them together. Even theclumsy plan of the simple fire-drill has been found in use forboring holes. It has been mentioned at page 187, as in usefor drilling hard stone among rude Indians of South America,and, what is much more surprising, the natives of Madagascarbored holes by working their drill between the palms of theirhands,^ though they were so far advanced in the arts as tomake and use iron tools, and of course the very drills workedin this primitive way were pointed with iron. The principle of t
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