The western world. Picturesque sketches of nature and natural history in North and South America (1874)
Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and Sons · leaf 627
624 THE LONG-BOW. mentions an Indian who used to place a piece of money on the top of a lemon, close to the point of the big toe on his left … SHOOTING WITH THE LONG-BOW foot. and then, leanine backwards, bend his bow with the J d oD help of his right one, and shoot into the air at an angle of 85°,—the arrow never failing when it turned round to come >
Natural history · Natural history -- America
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