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VOL. XII, 



met with off the coast for many miles northward of Macassar, 

 the commonest is a variety of the East Indonesian design where 

 the secondaries approach more closely to a form common in 

 Lombok than to those seen on the northern coasts of the Celebes 

 or anywhere in the Moluccas. Instead of the upper limb being 

 straight or only slightly bent, it is so greatly curved that the 

 extremity is bent down to the side of the boom and lashed thereto ; 

 as the part which in other varieties forms a distinct elbow, 

 is also here lashed to the side of the boom (Fig. 47), this design 

 gives great security and the use of bracing poles is dispensed 

 with. The long or outer arm of the joint is distinctly more elon- 

 gated than usual and is placed very obliquely, enabling the float to 

 be attached well beyond the ends of the booms. This design is 

 employed by all the larger fishing canoes that work the offshore 

 waters. 



These large craft have a slabsided dugout hull, sometimes 

 heightened by a wash-strake ; sharp at both ends with little or no 

 sheer. They always have a double outrigger and while the great 

 majority have but two booms, a few were seen with three. In this 

 case the extra or middle boom is placed well aft. The attachment 

 of the booms to the dugout is often effected differently from that 

 in general use among the types so far described; here a narrow 



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Fig. 47. — Diagrammatic transverse section through a Macassar outrigger dugout. 



thwart passes on each side through the gunwale and to this in 

 three places— one inside and two outside — the boom is lashed 

 (Fig. 47). Stout bamboos are used as floats. 



The greater number are rigged with a bamboo tripod mast and 

 oblong sail. This mast hinges at the base in the manner already 

 described (page 60) and can be folded down to rest in a crutch 

 at the stern. All three legs are attached very far forward, the 

 paired ones immediately in front of the fore boom, the odd leg 

 right in the bow. The truck where the two side poles meet is 

 finished off with a backward curl at the summit. Others have 

 adopted a rather tall pole mast ; these are generally rigged with a 



