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Title: 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. Wood... With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, Zwecker... 1871
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Wood, John George, 1827-1889
Subjects: Ethnology. Manners and customs. Savages
Publisher: J. B. Burr and company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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at would hold thecayman. Accordingly, on the following day he re-turned with a very remarkable hook. Itconsisted of four pieces of hard wood abouta foot in length, curved, and sharpened atthe ends, which were slightly barbed. Thesebarbs, if we may so call them, were tiedback to back round the lower end of a rope,a knot in the rope preventing it from drop-ping through the barbs, which were forcedto diverge from each other by four pegsdriven between them and the rope. Theso-called hook, indeed, was very like a four-pronged Fijian spear, supposing the shaft tobe cut off below the prongs, a hole boredthrough the centre of the cut shaft, and arope passed through the hole and knottedbelow the prongs. It is evident that if suchan instrument as this were taken into a cay-mans throat, the diverging prongs wouldprevent it from coming out again, and aslong as they remained unbroken, so longwould the cayman be held. This curious hook was then taken to theriver side, and baited with an agouti. The
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(1.) THE MAQUARRI DANCE. (See page 1253.)

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