The Solomon Islands and Their Natives

Note 48 — Chapter IV · DWELLINGS—TAMBU-HOUSES—WEAPONS—TOOLS.

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“A few months in New Guinea,” by O. C. Stone. London, 1880, p. 72.

[49] Hawkesworth’s “Voyages”: vol. i., pp, 296, 297.

[50] Fleurieu’s “Discoveries of the French in 1768 and 1769,” etc: p. 144.

[51] In Raffles’ “History of Java” (1830; vol i., pp. 25, 33) it is stated that common flints, hornstone, chalcedony, jasper, cornelian, etc., are frequently found in the beds of the streams of this island. If not already inquired into, further information should be sought concerning the shape and the source of these flints.

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