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booms to give these sufficient elevation to carry the floats at a 

 suitable depth. The larger ones have a washstrake pegged on. 



For passengers and ferry purposes, beamy plank-built boats 

 fitted with the same kind of doable outrigger are also employed. 

 In these the length of the booms is relatively shorter than in the 

 fishing canoes. Besides the booms three long thwarts cross the 

 hull, projecting 18 or 20 inches outboard on each side. On these 

 projections an outboard platform, with board sides and flooring of 

 split bamboos, is erected, large enough to accommodate a number 





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Fig. 49. — Attachment device seen at Buton, S.E. Celebes. 

 FlG. 50 a and /'.—Two forms of attachment in use at Raha, same region ; a. as used in 



large canoes ; b. in small ones. 



of passengers or to stow light cargo. To carry poles, paddles and 

 other boat gear, four Y-shaped crutches are fitted upon the 

 outboard ends of the two main thwarts. Two quarter rudders are 

 used, each hung by a grommet from a peg in the upper side of a 

 curved post fixed on each quarter. Forward are two small catheads, 

 connected by a bar, used to support the mast and sail when not in 

 use. The bow is straight. No ornament is employed whether in 

 these passenger boats or in the fishing canoes. 



At Raha, further north, the larger fishing canoes are double 

 outriggers much like those of Buton but with the curved end of the 

 hook-shaped secondary turned outwards, and with the float attached 

 on the outer side of the vertical arm instead of on the inner; to 

 give further strength to the joint, a straight strut— a short 

 cylindrical length of wood— is tied vertically between the under 

 side of the boom and the upper surface of the float (Fig. 50a). 

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