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outrigger essentially similar in the way the booms are attached to 

 the float, is found in Madagascar and on the Swahili coast of 

 East Africa. There however the outrigger frame is often double ; 

 it probably represents the original or archaic form of the present 

 Javanese type, from which the present has been derived by 

 degeneration. 



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FiG. 55. — Small fishing outrigger dugout, north const of [ava. 



Local names for these peculiar Javanese outriggers are : Tjemplan 

 (Chemplon) and Tembon at Samarang and Cheribon, respectively. 



SUMATRA. 



On the east coast no indigenous outrigger canoes are now em- 

 ployed. Formerly and not at any remote date they appear to have 

 been used throughout this island, for the Achinese of the 17th 

 century, then a powerful people, employed the double form. 

 Dampier gives an interesting account of the construction by 

 Achinese sailors of a double outrigger in the Nicobar Islands ; in 

 this craft Dampier and these men escaped from the islands and 

 arrived safely in Achinese territory. He lays stress on the value 

 of the double outrigger in preventing the capsize of their canoe in 

 the stormy weather they experienced on the voyage. 



At the present day double outriggers are still to be seen at 

 Padang on the west coast, and outrigger canoes are also found in 

 the off-coast islands of this neighbourhood. The Padang canoes 

 have two booms, connected directly with a float on each side. 



According to Rappard* the inhabitants of the so-called Malay 

 settlements on Nias use double outrigger canoes besides other craft 

 The same author states that the only seafaring section of the 

 original population of Nias., viz., the population of Mazingo (South- 

 east Nias), also use trading canoes fitted with outriggers, in this 



*■ Rappard, Th. C, " Het eiland Nias en zijne bewoners," Bijdragen lot de Taal- 

 Land-en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch- Indie, 7e Volgreeks, 8e deel, 1009, 's 

 Gravenhage. 



