After a few days, Peter's buffalo skin was ready to be made into leather. Peter hung it on a stick and pulled it so that it wouldn't go all stiff. Then he cut it into pieces so that he could make moccasins (leather shoes) and water sacks.
Peter was going on a trip to the Galapagos islands (a group of islands about 2,600 miles away from America, famous for having many animals on it that only live there, such as the Galapagos tortoise and the Marine iguana). One night, he woke up in the midde of a storm, with his boat sinking! The boat didn't have any lifeboats, so Peter grabbed a gun, bullets, gunpowder and a bag of corn, threw a barrel overboard, dived in after it, and swam to one of the Galapagos islands that was nearby, resting on the barrel when he was tired. Unluckily, it was uninhabited (nobody lived on it), but he at least survived the storm. Two and a half years later, he lived in a large cave, had a pet Galapagos hawk (a large, brown hawk breed. The main predator of the Galapagos islands) called Flyer and owned a large cornfield. Galapagos Hawk
interesting! Did he have to oil the skin? Was it too stuff to cut and shape into moccasins?
ReplyDeleteI mean stiff...was it too stiff to cut into moccasins?
ReplyDeleteNo it wasn't, because he had soaked it for a few days.
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