Note 85 — Chapter IX
Reading edition
It may not be generally known to European readers, that the arrows used by the western Indians are of two sorts. The hunting arrow, which has a head tapering in the form of an acute lozenge, and firmly secured to the shaft, so as to be easily withdrawn from a wound, and the war–arrow, sometimes poisoned, but always barbed like a fish–hook, and having its head so slightly fastened to the shaft, as to remain infixed in the wound when the wood is pulled out.