He had never heard any tradition of stone hatchets having been used, nor of stone spear-heads or arrowheads of that material, nor had he heard of any being turned up by the women in hoeing.

The Makonde, as we saw, use wooden spears where iron is scarce.

I saw wooden hoes used for tilling the soil in the Bechuana and Bataka countries, but never stone ones.

In 1841 I saw a Bushwoman in the Cape Colony with a round stone and a hole through it; on being asked she showed me how it was used by inserting the top of a digging-stick into it, and digging a root.

The stone was to give the stick weight.
[Illustration.] The stones still used as anvils and sledge-hammers by many of the African smiths, when considered from their point of view, show sounder sense than if they were burdened with the great weights we use.