But that isn't the reason of my calling it a bola perdida.
Heaven protect me, and you too, muchachos, from ever getting struck by a bola perdida!
Because, so far as is known to me, no other Chaco Indians but they use the bola perdida.
To use the bolas, grasp this big knot and one of the bolas, and then after whirling the free bola or bolas about the head to give them speed, hurl the whole outfit at any target handy.
The lost bola is simply a stone of convenient weight at the end of a three-foot cord.
Because of his use of the bola the Tehuelche is, in a sense, a sportsman as distinguished from a pot hunter.
The effective range of this lost bola is ordinarily 100 yards, and in some hands twice that.
It is intended for battles only, and is called lost bola because when thrown it is not usually recovered again.
Before the introduction of firearms the bola perdida was the original weapon of the Tehuelches, and is even at the present day a most deadly missile in their hands.
Their strength of arm is very great, and the distance to which they can throw the ostrich bola is truly astonishing: thus I have seen Crime and some others ball an ostrich over seventy yards distant.
Every bola heris[3] that was lying inside the sweat-house was terribly thirsty.
You bola herises tell us," said Olelbis, "who is a good Hlahi for water, and we will get him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bola" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
