With their hangers, or short swords, they cut down a small sapling of some four inches in diameter, split it up, pared each half down, and manufactured two bows; which were rough, indeed, but sufficiently strong to send an arrow a considerable distance.

They then made each a dozen shafts, pointed and notched them.

Without feathers, or metal points, these could not fly straight to any distance; but they had no thought of long-range shooting.
"Now," Ned said, "we will go back to that bare space of rock we passed, a hundred yards back.

There were dozens of little lizards running about there, it will be hard if we cannot knock some over." "Are they good to eat ?" Tom asked.
"I have no doubt they are," Ned said.

"As a rule, everything is more or less good to eat.