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Tlu? Thro it Stick,Sir Walter Elliot has traced to East India a curved “throw stick,” resembling, but differing from, the Australianbowerang, inasmuch as it docs not return to the hand (when thrown. The Indian 41 throw stick ” is found among the rude races inhabiting the mountain and lores! tracks ot Central and WesternIndia * In wa*t« and jiuirk trucks, people turn out in grlt; at numbers duringthe hot season, commencing on the first day of the Hindu new year in March, and continued 011 every succeeding Sunday till .the monsoon begins. Hares, deer, bog, pea-fowls, partridges, etc., raised by this lowly race of beaters, each carrying a “throw stick/' are knocked over by showers of these weapons thrown with great force and precision*From the form of such nticks, which are from U to 2 feet long and U to fi inches broad, thrown with the concave side foremost, the author deduced the foixu assumed by the iron weapons subsequently formed by the saiuc races. Profi -hor Huxley, in elus ifying the varieties of the human race exclusively for physical characters, hud included tinder one head the people of New South Walt*?, of the Highlands of Central India, and of Ancient Egypt, all of whom be includes under the term Austruloid* Now it ia a remarkable coincidence that among these three far distant people* the “throw stick ” was the Weapon of the ohuiL*, and that examples do not occur in tho intermediate countries. The pictures in the tombs of the kings at Thebes represent hunting scenes in which the curved sticks found at this day in India tire extensively represented, The home-rung of Australia is precisely ot the same form, but, being thinner mid lighter, h so fitted us to have a recoiling property*
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Ridgway Elk County Advocate
Ridgway, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Nov 14, 1872
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