12/18 This dress the priests sent to Rome. She was making one of these water bottles. She heated small round stones in the fire and put them in the asphaltum, and then lined the bottle, making it tight. She had no matches, of course, nor even a tinder-box, but started fire by rubbing two sticks together. None of the Indians understood her dialect; finally one woman was found who could talk to her a little, who had been raised on the same island. |