These were shaved down to one fourth of an inch thick, round, smooth, and perfectly straight.

Each was notched deeply at one end; three pieces of split goose feather were lashed on the notched end, and three different kinds of arrows were made.

All were alike in shaft and in feathering, but differed in the head.

First, the target arrows: these were merely sharpened, and the points hardened by roasting to a brown colour.

They would have been better with conical points of steel, but none of these were to be had.