 | Arctic regions - 1775 - 674 pages
...been newly burned, though the fire was extinguished. They produce fire with great facility, and fpread it in a wonderful manner. To produce it, they take two pieces of dry foft wood, one is a ftick about eight or nine inches long, the other piece is flat : the ftick they... | |
 | George Adams - Physics - 1794 - 618 pages
...Cook's voyage. The inhabitants of Holland are there faid to produce fire with great facility, and fpread it in a wonderful manner. To produce it, they take two pieces offoft dry wood; one is a ftick about eight or nine inches long, the other piece is flat. The ftick... | |
 | John Campbell - Admirals - 1813 - 546 pages
...bake their provisions by the help of hot stones, like the inhabitants of the South Sea islands. Tney produce fire with great facility, and spread it in a wonderful manner. For this purpose they take two pieces of dry soft wood. The one is flat, the other a stick with an... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 534 pages
...could scarcely force it over places which had been newly burnt, though the fire was extinguished. They produce fire with great facility, and spread it in...wonderful manner. To produce it they take two pieces o; dry soft wood, one is a stick about eight or nine inch< Jong, the other piece is flat : The stick... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 782 pages
...great facility according to Capt. Cook, but with difficulty according to later accounts, and fpread it in a wonderful manner. To produce it, they take two pieces of dry foft wood; one is a (tick about 8 or 9 inches long, the other is fiat. The (lick they fhape into an... | |
 | John Campbell - Admirals - 1818 - 520 pages
...bake their provisions by the help of hot stones, like the inhabitants of the south sea islands. They produce fire with great facility, and spread it in a wonderful manner. For this purpose they take two pieces of dry soft wood. The one is flat, the other a stick with an... | |
 | James Cook - Oceania - 1842 - 636 pages
...could scarcely force it over places which had been newly burnt, though the fire was extinguished. They produce fire with great facility, and spread it in a wonderful manner. To produco it tlmey take two pieces of dry soft wood, one is a stick about eight or nine incimes long,... | |
 | Frederick Starr - Civilization - 1895 - 320 pages
...indicate but a few regions which might be mentioned. Of the Australians Captain Cook said : ' ' They produce fire with great facility and spread it in a wonderful manner ; they take two pieces of dry soft wood ; one is a stick about eight or nine inches long, the other... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Lands - Aboriginal Australians - 1901 - 360 pages
...first of all quote the description which Captain Cook gives of this method : — " To produce it [fire] they take two pieces of dry soft wood, one is a stick about 8 or 9 inches long, the other piece is flat: the stick they shape into an obtuse point at one end,... | |
 | Frederick Starr - Anthropology - 1901 - 288 pages
...these indicate but a few regions which might be mentioned. Of the Australians Captain Cook said: "They produce fire with great facility and spread it in a wonderful manner ; they take two pieces of dry soft wood ; one is a stick about eight or nine inches long, the other... | |
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To produce it they take two pieces of dry soft wood ; one is a stick about 8 or 9 inches long, the other piece is flat : the stick they shape into an obtuse point at one end, and pressing it upon the other, turn it nimbly by holding it between both their... 
