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thereby reducing resistance when sailing as well as contributing 

 to the general strength and rigidity of structure as a whole ; these 

 braces are of the nature of stays and it is noteworthy that their 

 use is confined to outriggers of the East Indonesian design — those 

 with oblique secondaries. 



The anterior portion of the brace pole is usually ornamented by 

 the cutting of a series of three incised rings, the extremity being 

 mango shaped. The fore end of the float is deep and narrow in 

 section, forward of the front lashing, with the upper surface ridged 



Fig. 38. — Fore end of outrigger frame. Ceram. 



in the centre, with incised herring-bone decoration (Fig. 38) on the 

 two sloping faces. At the hinder end of this short stretch of 

 incised pattern the transverse section of the float becomes nearly 

 cylindrical but less deep than the fore end. 



SULA ISLANDS. 



These islands lie midway between Bum and the western coast 

 of the Celebes, and are not to be confounded with the Siilu 

 Archipelago, between the Philippines and Borneo. Their out- 

 rigger canoes conform entirely to the East Indonesian type ; 

 none is found either of the Burn or the Amboina types. Those 

 of Sanana, the principal town in Sula Besi island, are typical of 

 the local variety. The ends of all are brought in very fine, and 

 in the large ones great sheer is given. Wash-strakes are added 

 to almost all ; as little flare is given, the end view is extremely 

 elegant and remarkably like that of a modern 'ocean greyhound ' 

 as seen in dry dock. In some, the sheer is so great that the bottom 

 of the canoe forms almost a segment of a circle, running sharp and 



