Note 8 — Chapter XLVII · NIKOLAEFSK.
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They raised it above the shoulders, holding the head of the nail in the palm, and threw it down, making the point pass through a ring, about an inch and a half in diameter, lying on the ground. The person throwing it sometimes buried it to the head in the soil, whence another had to unearth it, or it was driven through a piece of wood, from which it was another’s business to extricate it. The feat appeared very easy, but in the few attempts I made I did not succeed in sticking the pin in the ground.