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bowsprit, the point of the head, etc. The vessel carries three cotton 

 lug sails, fore staysail, and jib. 



Dimensions of prahu. — Length over all (to extremity of fore 

 platform), 57 feet 9 inches, of hull proper, 45 feet; beam, 12 feet; 

 width, to outside of galleries, 15 feet; depth, 4 feet 10^ inches; 

 bowsprit, outboard, 12 feet ; foremast, above deck, 34 feet 6 inches ; 

 main yard, 28 feet 3^ inches; mizzenmast, above quarter-deck, 21 

 feet; mizzen yard, 15 feet. Scale of model, three-fourths inch equals 

 1 foot. 

 Collected by Dr. G. Brown Goode. • Cat. No. 76,232 U.S.N.M. 



Model of Siak " lanchang." 



This type of vessel is used at Siak, on the coast of Sumatra, and 

 strongly resembles the piratical prahus of the East Indian Archi- 



FIG. 83. SUMATRA '' LANCHANG." 



pelago. It has a very hollow sharp bow; stem straight and nearly 

 vertical: projecting carved head; hollow floor curving down to keel; 

 quick bilge; sharp hollow run; nearly vertical, slightly concave 

 sternpost; heavy, elaborately carved, overhanging square stern, the 

 bottom of which is only a flat platform; projecting flat counters; 

 high quarter-deck or poop, beneath which is the cabin, the latter with 

 open spaces at sides ; open rail around quarter and main deck ; pro- 

 jections forward on each side, with openwork platform between and 

 carved head of bird ; two slim bamboo masts stepped in stanchions 

 open on after side. 



