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fastened together with logs secured by wooden tree nails. The raft 

 is fitted with a rude platform and seats, and arched over with a mat 

 roof : also with an elevated seat for the steersman. 



Dim^ensions of jangada. — Length, 17 feet 3 inches ; width, 5 feet 

 3 inches; mast, 13 feet 1^ inches; boom, 10 feet 6 inches. Scale of 

 model, two-thirds inch equals 1 foot. 

 Collected by S. D. Trenchard. Cat. No. 15,139 U.S.N.M. 



Model of British Guiana dugout canoe. 



This is a peculiar type of dugout '' piragua," or canoe, used by 

 the Caribs of British Guiana. A section of a tree is hollowed out 

 thin and the sides spread apart by seven crossbeams resting upon 

 and lashed to each gunwale ; the excavation is continued the entire 

 length, leaving the ends open. These are filled by V-shaped cross 

 sections fitted into the ends and pitched to make the seams tight. 

 These square ends extend some distance above the gunwales. 



Fn;. r,s. — British guiana dugout caxoe. 



Dimensions of canoe. — Length, 18 feet 10 inches; beam, -3 feet 

 8 inches; depth, 18 inches; paddles. 6 feet 5 inches. Scale of model. 

 1:^ inches equal 1 foot. 

 Gift of Eev. J. Cullen. Cat. Xo. 4,339 U.S.N.M. 



Model of Fuegian canoe. 



This is a type of canoe used by the native Indians in the Strait 

 of Magellan. It is made of coarse bark sewed together with wh'ale- 

 bone and fastened to an inner frame. The frame consists of a rather 

 slim rounded gunwale, on each side, to which are secured splints 

 made bj' splitting saplings or branches of trees, which are bent round 

 in a bow shape, as required, to give the proper shape to the boat. 

 The gunwales are supported and kept in proper position by five 

 cross bars, which are lashed to it with whalebone and serve the pur- 

 .pose of thwarts. The covering, or skin of the boat, is fastened to 

 the gunwales with whalebone. The canoe has a round bottom, flar- 

 ing sides, and a very strong camber, both ends being sharp and risingt 

 to a point from beneath ; it has considerable sheer on top. 



The form of this canoe is almost precisely like that of a fishing 

 boat used at Jessor, in the Bengal Presidency, India. It has two 



