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Instead of being clothed in the national fashion, with a frontlet of macaw feathers, bow, and blow-tube, have they not adopted the American costume of white cotton trousers, and a cotton poncho woven by their wives, who have become thorough adepts in its manufacture?
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The Dyak uses a sumpitan, or blow-tube, which is about seven feet long, and having a bore of about half an inch.
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Instead of being clothed in the national fashion, with a frontlet of macaw feathers, bow, and blow-tube, have they not adopted the American costume of white cotton trousers, and
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866
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A hunter preserves the same blow-tube during his whole life, and boasts of its lightness and precision, as we boast of the same qualities in our fire-arms.
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First, then, for the blow-tube itself he had cut stems of a slender palm-tree, -- a species of _Iriartea_, but not that sort already described.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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First, then, for the blow-tube itself he had cut stems of a slender palm-tree, a species of _Iriartea_, but not that sort already described.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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A hunter preserves the same blow-tube during his whole life, and boasts of its lightness and precision, as we boast of the same qualities in our fire-arms.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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This time, he's helping the wheelchair-bound enjoy Guitar Hero 4's drums by using a blow-tube to operate the kick pedal.
Gizmodo 2009
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` gravatana, 'or blow-tube, is employed, with its poisoned darts.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850
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a sumpitan, or blow-tube, which is about seven feet long, and having a bore of about half an inch.
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