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upper 3^ard, 23 feet 8 inches; lower yard, 25 feet 8 inches; lugsail, 

 11 feet mean height by 21 feet mean width; bowsprit, outboard, 

 6 feet 8 inches; jib (set flying) ; luff, 20 feet; foot, 10 feet; leach, 

 16 feet; oars, 20 feet 8 inches. Scale of model three-fourths inch 

 equals 1 foot. 



The Bugis of northern Celebes are celebrated as being one of the 

 bravest and most enterprising of the maritime races of the East. 

 Collected by Dr. G. Brown Goode. Cat. No. 76,212 U.S.N.M. 



Model of Java boat. 



This type of Java and Pulau Klapa boat is called " champlong " 

 by the natives. It is a double-ended keel boat with sharp, hollow 

 bow and stern ; curved stem and sternpost, rising considerably above 

 gunwale, curved strongly inboard, and terminating in a nearly oval- 

 shaped, elaborately carved end; has a rising, hollow floor; quick 

 bilge; fair sheer; is decked, the deck being on a level with the 

 thwarts except at the extreme bow, where it is flush with the gun- 

 wale ; has high quarter rails or washboards abaft the middle, which 

 form the sides for a mat roof to rest upon; forward of these is an 

 open supplementary rail with single tholes and oars held by twine 

 beckets; carries a single cotton lugsail. 



Dimensions of hoat. — Length, 25 feet; beam, 8 feet; depth, 3 feet 

 4 inches; mast, above deck, 12 feet 8 inches; upper yard, 18 feet 4 

 inches; lower yard, 31 feet; oars, 9 feet 10 inches. Scale of model, 

 three- fourths inch equals 1 foot. 

 Collected by Dr. G. Brown Goode. Cat. No. 76,211 U.S.N.M. 



Model of Bombay fishing boat. 



This peculiar tyj)e of boat is employed for fishing purposes and 

 locally known as the " machva " or " muchva," terms which in the 

 native dialect mean a fisher or fishers. The machva is one of the 

 most distinctive types of fishing boats in the world. It has the 

 reputation of being very swift under sail, but owing to the form of 

 its keel can not tack to windward, but is compelled to wear when it 

 is necessary to go about. "Wliile it has no deck, the boat is strength- 

 ened by many thwarts, and is generally provided with a sort of 

 matting of palm-wood laths fastened with a cord, which can be let 

 down on the thwart as a temporary deck or rolled up out of the 

 way like patent shutters. These boats are built of teak and must 

 necessarily be made very strong, since when beached they touch 

 bottom only at the bow and stern. Generally, however, everything 

 entering into their construction and rig is of the rudest. The timber 

 and even the spars are said to be often coarse and crooked, " yet they 

 sail like witches and last longer than their owners." They are not 

 generally iron fastened, but it is not long since the fastenings were 



