 | Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1804 - 304 pages
...Advocate, and. .'•tretary of die colony. V°l-. XI. ,, joint in it, fastened by gum, is from fifteen lo twenty feet in length, and armed with four barbed...hooks are made of mother-of-pearl oysters, which are rubberf on a stone until they assume the proper shape. It may be added that although these hooks arc... | |
 | G. Paterson - Aboriginal Australians - 1811 - 648 pages
...females use the hook and line. The fiz-gig is made of the wattle ; has a joint in it, fastened by gum ; is from fifteen to twenty feet in length, and armed...four barbed prongs ; the barb being a piece of bone sec uivil by gum. The lines used by the women are made by themselves of the bavk of a small tree which... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 592 pages
...females use the hook and line. The tiz-gig is made of the wattle ; has a joint in it, fastened by gum ; is from fifteen to twenty feet in length, and armed...piece of bone secured by gum. The lines used by the women are made by themselves of the bark of a small tree which they find in the neighbourhood. Their... | |
 | Joseph Holt - Ireland - 1838 - 454 pages
...females use the hook and line. The fiz-gig is made of the wattle ; has a joint in it, fastened by gum ; is from fifteen to twenty feet in length, and armed...prongs; the barb being a piece of bone secured by gum. To each of these prongs they gave a particular name ; but I never could discover any sensible reason... | |
 | Joseph Holt - Ireland - 1838 - 464 pages
...hook and line. The fiz-gig is made of the wattle ; has a joint in it, fastened by gum ; is from 6fteen to twenty feet in length, and armed with four barbed...prongs; the barb being a piece of bone secured by gum. To each of these prongs they gave a particular name ; but I never could discover any sensible reason... | |
 | Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...the wattle, having a joint in it, fastened by gum, and from fifteen to twenty feet in length. It was armed with four barbed prongs, the barb being a piece of bone secured by gum. IT Lieut.-Col. Mundy was much pleased with the sight of a native using the fish-spear. "Just opposite... | |
 | Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...the wattle, having a joint in it, fastened by gum, and from fifteen to twenty feet in length. It was armed with four barbed prongs, the barb being a piece of bone secured by gum. IT Lieut.-Col. Mundy was much pleased with the sight of a native using the fish-spear. "Just opposite... | |
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... killing them with the Fiz-gig, while the females use the hook and line. The fiz-gig is made of the wattle ; has a joint in it, fastened by gum ; is from fifteen to twenty feet in length, and armed with four barbed prongs; the barb being a piece of... 