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being' placed so far forward these canoes do not lay 

 up close to the wmd^ but when g'omg" free consider- 

 able speed may be obtained. 



Among" the canoes which visited the ship one 

 was of a quite different construction from the rest 

 and resembled some of those which we had seen 

 while passing- along the northern side of Ilossel 

 Island. It contained seven men^ and came from 



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the eastward — probably from Piron Island. The 

 bodv of a canoe of this class is formed like the 

 other^ or more common kind^ of the hollowed out 

 trunk of a large tree, tapering* to a point and rising* 

 slig'htly at the ends^ which^ however^ are alike and 

 covered over by a close-fitting- piece of wood^ each end 

 being- thus converted into a hollow cone. The sides 

 are raised by a plank two feet hig-h and end boards 

 forming- a kind of long- box, with the seams pitched 

 over. One side is provided with an outrig'g-er simi- 



