Did she not see you stricken to the earth by the swords and mauls of more than a hundred wild Galwegians, Douglases, and devils?
Stone mauls of this type have previously been seldom found among the American Eskimo.
All these mauls are battered on the striking face, showing that they have been used.
This is very like the method of lashing on the heads of the mauls already described, but the mauls have only one hole in the haft, and there are rarely any turns around the latter.
The haft, like those of the mauls and adzes already described, is never fitted into the head, but always applied to the under surface of the latter and held on by a lashing of thong.
Among the "Chukches" at Pithkaj, however, Nordenskioeld found stone mauls of precisely the same model as ours and also used as bone crushers.
Before the introduction of iron, in addition to the bone and stone mauls above described as bone crushers, unhafted pebbles of convenient shape were also employed.
This method of hafting differs in no essential respect from that used on the maulsand adzes above described.
For this purpose heavy short-handled stonemauls are used.
In addition to the above-described stone mauls, there are in the collection five nearly similar mauls of heavy bone, which have evidently served the same purpose.
Four of these differ in no respect from the stone mauls except in having the heads made of whale's rib; the fifth is all in one piece.
The collection contains a large series of these implements, namely, 13 complete mauls and 13 unhafted heads.
Marcou[876] has given an account of the discovery of some of those maulsin the Mine de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest, at Point Kievenau, Lake Superior.
The large stone mauls found so commonly in the neighbourhood of ancient copper-mines, in this and many other countries in both hemispheres, were hafted much in the same manner as the Australian axe.
Some of these mauls are figured in the Archæological Journal,[858] and are of much the same form as Fig.
Thus may we form some judgment what This same Apollo would be at; Whether he mauls each wicked sinner, Because a mighty pimping dinner He often had but then he knew That we had damn'd short commons too.
The mauls consist of oblong water-worn bowlders of hard tough rock, nature having done every thing in fashioning them except to form the groove, which was chiseled out around the middle.
The only helps they seem to have employed was fire, traces of which are found everywhere, and stone mauls and axes.
By means of stone mauls the fragments were broken up and removed.
It seems hardly probable that one man could wield so ponderous a tool; and from the fact that some of the large mauls have two grooves around them, it is presumed that two men were employed in using them.
Nevertheless, the tree had its virtues even in the eyes of the rail-splitters; for, though it was unwedgeable, it helped along the fence rail industry in a very substantial way by furnishing the material of which mauls were made.
Indians find these arrow-points just as they find the stone mauls and hammers, which I have seen them use thousands of times, but they do not make them any more than they make the stone mauls and hammers.
Axes andmauls were necessary to-day, to make a road through the snow.
Towards sundown it began to grow cold, and we shouldered our mauls and trudged back to camp.
They accordingly set to with a will, and very soon the yard resounded with the harsh rasping of saws and the heavy blows of mauls wedging the timbers into their places.
In gauging ties it is very convenient to have measured off on the handles of the mauls in the hands of the forward spikers the distance from the outside of the rail to the end of the tie.
Spike mauls should weigh not less than nine nor more than ten pounds, and should be on straight handles, not less than 3 ft.
The great wedges were placed in position, and the heavy stroke of one of the mauls resounded through the valley.
As the heavy strokes of the mauls fell he glanced over the faces of the onlookers.
Axes andmauls were necessary to-day to make a road through the snow.
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