ir arms, but these
employments occupied them only occasionally.[26]

[23] Eyriaud des Vergnes, _op. cit._ pp. 42-44; Clavel, _Les
Marquisiens_, pp. 3 _sqq._ Compare G. Forster, _op. cit._ ii. 27
_sq._; Langsdorff, _op. cit._ i. 106-108; Fleurieu, _op. cit._
i. 115 _sq._; Porter, _op. cit._ ii. 50-55; F. D. Bennett, _op.
cit._ i. 316 _sq._; H. Melville, _Typee_, pp. 120-124, 179;
Vincendon-Dumoulin et C. Desgraz, _op. cit._ pp. 277 _sq._;
Mathias G----, _op. cit._ pp. 138 _sq._, 144 _sq._; A. Baessler,
_op. cit._ pp. 208-211. As to the preparation and drinking of
kava among the Marquesans, see also M. Radiguet, _op. cit._ pp.
64-66.

[24] Krusenstern, _op. cit._ i. 164; Porter, _op. cit._ ii. 53;
C. S. Stewart, _op. cit._ i. 213 _sq._; F. D. Bennett, _op.
cit._ i. 345 (who says that the only root the natives cultivate
for food is the sweet potato); Mathias G----, _op. cit._ pp.
148, 149; Clavel, _op. cit._ p. 18.

[25] Fleurieu, _op. cit._ i. 122 _sq._; Porter, _op. cit._ ii.
116; Bennett, _op. cit._ i. 337 _sq._; Melville, _Typee_, pp.
158-160, 210; Mathias G----, _op. cit._ pp. 137 _sq._; Radiguet,
_op. cit._ pp. 53 _sq._; Eyriaud des Vergnes, _op. cit._ 55
_sq._; Clavel, _op. cit._ 19.

[26] Krusenstern, _op. cit._ i. 164.

The weapons of the warriors were clubs, spears, and slings. The slings
were made of coco-nut fibre, and the natives were very expert in the use
of them. Bows and arrows were unknown.[27] Like the rest of the
Polynesians, the Marquesans were totally ignorant of the metals until
they acquired them from Europeans. Their tools were made of stone, bone,
and shell. Thus they employed a pointed stone to bore holes with, and an
axe of black, hard stone for cutting. The axe-head was shaped like an
elongated wedge or mortise-chisel, and was fastened to the haft by
coco-nut fibre. Some of these axes weighed as much as twenty-five
pounds. The natives also used sharp-edged or toothed shells as cutting
implements, and borers made of pointed bones; while rough fish-skins
served them as polishers.[28] Like the rest of the Polynesians, they
kindled fire by the method known as the stick-and-groove, that is, by
rubbing the sharp point of one stick against the flat surface of
another, so as to form a groove in it and, by continued friction, to
elicit smoke and a glow, which, with the help of dry leaves, is nursed
into a flame. C