Note 7 — PREFACE. (continued 5)
Reading edition
These arrows were made from the blossom-stalk of the sugar-cane and were of two kinds, one of less than two feet in length for shunting along the ground; the other was usually the full length of the stalk, its use being with a short string so affixed as to detach itself as it was jerked from the ground for its flight. Both kinds had to be perfectly straight to accomplish long flights; any tendency to curve rendered the arrow defective. ↑