 | Anthropology - 1882 - 658 pages
...times as adze blades, but this is no longer the case, for quantities of iron are always obtainable. Strange as it may seem to some of my readers, there is no trace or tradition of stone having been utilised for this purpose. 3. The only instances in which these... | |
 | Samuel MacClintock - Business - 1923 - 834 pages
...romance in ly line of endeavor is simply a pro :ss of extraction. It's there if yo" ig deep enough. Strange as it may seem to some of my readers, there is romance in the very job you are doing to-day. If you can find it you'll be doubly fortunate. Such a... | |
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... explained, merely as mementoes of the departed, and the latter are stuck on poles, or hung round the eaves of their huts, as trophies of the chase. Pinna and other shells are said to have been used in former times as adze blades, but this is no longer... 