 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 sider
...have almost lost the knowledge of their own. A stone-hatchet is, at present, as rare a thing amongst them, as an iron one was eight years ago ; and a chisel of bone or stone is not to be seen. Spike-nails have supplied the place of these last, and they are weak enougli to fancy that they have... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 sider
...have almost lost the knowledge of their own. A stone-hatchet is, at present, as rare a thing amongst them, as an iron one was eight years ago ; and a chisel of l)ono or stone is not to be seen. Spike-nails have supplied the place of these last, and they are weak... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 526 sider
...have almost lost the knowledge of their own. A stone-hatchet is, at present, as rare a thing amongst them, as an iron one was eight years ago; and a chisel of bone or stone is not to be seen. Spike-nails have supplied the place of these last, and they are weak enough to fancy that they have... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 644 sider
...have almost lost the knowledge of their own. A stone hatehet is, at present, as rare a thing amongst them as an iron one was eight years ago ; and a chisel of bone, or stone, is not to be seen. Spike-nails have supplied the place of the last ; and they are weak enough to fancy that they have... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 556 sider
...last voyage Captain Cook tells us * that " a stone hatchet is, at present, as rare a thing amongst them, as an iron one was eight years ago ; and a chisel of bone or stone is not to be seen." The stone axes, or rather adzes, were of various sizes ; those intended for cutting down trees weigh six... | |
 | 1866 - 452 sider
...very few years replaced by those of metal ; a stone hatchet is at present, he says, " as rare a thing as an iron one was eight years ago, and a chisel of bone or stone is not to be seen." The rapidity with which the change from stone to metal is effected, depends on the supply of the latter.... | |
 | 1867 - 524 sider
...few years replaced by those of metal : " A stone hatchet is at present," he says, " as rare a thing as an iron one was eight years ago ; and a chisel of bone or stone is not to be seen." The rapidity with which the change from stone to metal is effected depends on the supply of the latter.... | |
 | Sven Nilsson - 1868 - 402 sider
...a very few years replaced by those of metal ; a stone hatchet was then, he says, ' as rare a thing as an iron one was eight years ago, and a chisel of bone or stone is not to be seen.' The rapidity with which the change from stone to metal is effected depends on the supply of the latter.... | |
 | Sven Nilsson, Sir John Lubbock - 1868 - 392 sider
...a very few years replaced by those of metal ; a stone hatchet was then, he says, ' as rare a thing as an iron one was eight years ago, and a chisel of bone or stone is not to be seen.' The rapidity with which the change from stone to metal is effected depends on the supply of the latter.... | |
 | Lady Diana Jolliffe Belcher - 1871 - 390 sider
...these primitive implements, is mentioned by Captain Cook in his last voyage to the Pacific in lY77. At that date, in speaking of the Tahitians, he says,...necessarily short visits (dependent on the wind being in a fa" vorable quarter, as no vessel could anchor) were to them a kind of jubilee, which varied the monotony... | |
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... less perfect contrivances, which they now despise, and have discontinued, since the introduction of ours. For, by the time that the iron tools, of which they are now possessed, are worn out, they will have almost lost the knowledge of their own. A... 
