Blowpipes may be considered as miniature blast-furnaces.
Very good and cheap blowpipes may be made by bending a piece of glass tube into the form shown at d, adding a perforated cork and a small piece of bent glass tube fixed as in the figure.
They have blowpipes with thick wooden arrows more than one palmo long, with harpoon points, and others tipped with fishbones, and poisoned with an herb; while others are tipped with points of bamboo like harpoons and are poisoned.
At the end of their blowpipes they fasten a bit of iron like a spear head; [401] and when they have shot all their arrows they fight with that.
They have blowpipes and small quivers at their side, full of arrows and a poisonous herb.
From Mindanao the expedition sailed to the little Kagayan islands in the Sulu Sea, where the people had blowpipes with tiny poisoned arrows, daggers with their hafts adorned with gold and precious stones, and wore armour made of buffalo hide.
They were well armed with blowpipes and thick wooden arrows tipped with fish bones and bamboo, and poisoned.
The same designs are repeated on the ear-rings, blowpipes and quivers.
I have here also one of the blowpipes used by Deville in his process for working platinum in the way I have spoken of.
He puts the blowpipes through these apertures, and sends down these gases upon the metals, which are gradually melted.
Blowpipes in which oxygen is used as the blast have been manufactured by Fletcher, Russell & Co.
Hence mostblowpipes are now made with a cavity for retaining the moisture.
These blowpipes are sometimes used also as lances, having the iron fastened at one side, so that, if the shot is not accurate, they use it alternately as a lance.
This cone in the other blowpipes is greater or less according to the relative size.
Even in the same sizes of blowpipes the conditions must vary slightly, and a little practical experience with each blowpipe will soon indicate the best working conditions.
Brazing blowpipes should be fitted with a combination air and gas regulator, by means of which both the size and nature of the flame can be adjusted to suit the work in hand.
Because they are toys," said Cyril seriously, "and blowpipes are not.
It will, perhaps, be new to many of you that blowpipes can easily be made in a form which admits of any special shape of flame being produced.
Of all the tools in a workshop, nothing saves more time and worry than two or three sizes of good blowpipes and an efficient blower.
Tim and Sambo followed, to assist us in bringing back what we might collect; and Kallolo and Maco, wishing to shoot some birds, came with their blowpipes and bows and arrows.
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