In speaking to each other, their words seemed to be distinctly pronounced.

Their arms were bows, arrows, and clubs, which they bartered for every kind of iron work with eagerness, but appeared to set little value on anything else.

The bows are made of split bamboo, and so strong that no man in the ship could bend one of them.

The string is a broad slip of cane fixed to one end of the bow; and fitted with a noose to go over the other end when strung.

The arrow is a cane of about four feet long, into which a pointed piece of the hard, heavy, casuarina wood is firmly and neatly fitted; and some of them were barbed.