Reports and Awards of the Jurors ...for the Commissioners by Mills, Dick & Company, 1866 - 531 pagine |
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Pagina 330 - For the circular plate of this instrument the hardened intervertebral cartilage of a whale is taken. A hole is made through, and the stick firmly and accurately fixed in it. Two strings are then attached to the upper end of the stick, and by pulling them a rapid rotatory motion is given to the drill. When an indentation is once made in the pounamu the work is easy. As each flint becomes blunted it is replaced by another in the stick, until the work is done.
Pagina 314 - ... backing is then applied in the same way to the other side of the tile. It is then covered with a piece of felt, and put into a box press ; a plaster of Paris slab containing the pattern in relief is then brought down upon the face of the tile, and the design is impressed into the soft tinted clay. The hollows thus formed are filled with a semi-rtuid clay of a rich or deep color poured into them and over the whole surface of the tile.
Pagina 330 - ... by another in the stick, until the work is done. Two meres were in process of formation while we stayed at Taramakau, and one had just been finished. A native will get up at night to have a polish at a favourite mere, or take one down to the beach and work away by the surf. A piece of pounamu and some slate will be carried when travelling, and at every halt a rub will be taken at it. Poor fellows ! They had no tobacco, and a grind at a piece of hard inanga seemed to be a stimulant.
Pagina 341 - In Nepaul, the leathern attire is dispensed with, and the resin is collected on the skin of naked coolies.' In Persia the churrus is obtained by pressing the resinous plant on coarse cloths, and then scraping it from these and melting it in a pot with a little warm water. Mirza considers the churrus of Herat the most powerful of all the varieties of the drug.
Pagina 341 - The three ingredients of the betel nut, as commonly used, are the sliced nut, the leaf of the betel pepper in which the- nut is rolled, and chunam or powdered lime, which is smeared over the leaf. Prof. Johnston calculated that they are chewed by at least 50 millions of the human race...
Pagina 346 - In order to provide some guarantee against this, it has been proposed that a guild or company of respectable traders should be formed, who should be empowered to affix on all genuine shawls a trade-mark, which should be a guarantee to the public that the material of the shawl is genuine...
Pagina 22 - ... degrees, and occupying from the Clarke river towards the south, to the Parapara on the north, a superficial extent of about forty English miles, is a gold-field. Throughout this whole district, on the foot of the range, we find a conglomerate deposited on the top of...
Pagina 96 - ... on the plains towards the south. The excellence of the wool, to which everything else is sacrificed, is supposed to be due to an equality of temperature maintained by shifting the position of the sheep, so that they may occupy the cooler mountains in summer, and the warmer plains in winter. An objection to this explanation arises from the fact, that the fleece of some of the German merinos, which do not travel at all, is far superior to the best Leonese fleece ; and, even in Spain, it is said...
Pagina 329 - It is of clear pale green, and is very translucent. The Natives will drill a hole through a pebble of it and hang it to a child's ear, but do not care to fashion it into any shape. It is the only kind of poenamu that would be esteemed for purposes of ornament by Europeans.
Pagina 334 - De Cand.) I have seen pieces of native cloth intended for mosquito curtains and screens, which were nearly one hundred feet long and thirty broad. Most of the cloth worn is pure white, being bleached in the sun as we bleach linen, but printed Tapa is also, though not so frequently, seen, whilst that used for curtains is always coloured. Their mode of printing is by means of raised forms of little strips of bamboo, on which the colour is placed, and the tops pressed ; indeed, the fundamental principle...