hand brings the cross-piece down it unwinds the cord, driving the spindle round; as the hand is lifted again, the disk, acting as a fly-wheel, runs on and re-winds the cord, and so on. Holtzappfel says that the pump-drill is as well known among the Oriental nations as the breast-drill, though it is little used in England except by china and glass menders.[1] Perhaps it may have found its way over from Asia to the South Sea Islands; at any rate it is found there. Fig. 28 shows it as used in Fakaafo or Bowditch Island, differing from the Swiss form only in being armed with a stone instead of a steel point, and in having no hole through the cross-piece.[2]
Fig. 27. |
Fig. 28. |
Mr. Turner describes it in the neighbouring Samoan or Navigators' Islands, as pointed with a nail or a sail-needle, got from the foreigners,[3] but the specimen presented by him to the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow has a stone point. The natives use it for drilling their fish-hooks made of shell; for which purpose, as for drilling holes in china, it is peculiarly adapted, the lightness and evenness of its pres-
