Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 510
stick,and gently blows it into a flame at the propertime. The Africans clumsiness in fire-making)and the fact, before referred to, that he doesVol. XXVI.—63. not use the products of his forge to strike a firefor its lighting, is one of the interesting andcurious anomalies of savage life. The Eskimo… … AFRICANS USING THEIR FIRE-MAKING APPARATUS makes one turn aroundthe drill at about the mid-dle of the stick. This cord isusually made of the rawhide of aseal or other animal, and it is tiedat each end to a handle cut froma hollow bone, or fashioned out ofa bears tooth or a bit of wood. In order…
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