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very largely of coir twine, which is even yet used a good deal for the 

 purpose, especially in the upper works. The machva has little gear 

 besides her simple rigging. A grapnel of six arms, weighing from 

 60 to 100 pounds, a dozen long paddles and as many bamboo poles 

 about 15 feet long, a small, heavy box filled with sand to serve as a 

 caboose, two leathern buckets, and a lantern form the whole of her 



FIG. 87. BOMBAY "• .MACHVA. 



inventory, and with these on board a boat of 12 tons has probably 

 cost from four to five hundred rupees to rig and fit. 



The model shows a wooden, carvel-built, open, keel boat; with 

 long, sharp, overhanging bow; strongly raking, straight stem, pro- 

 jecting some distance above the gunwale and extending below to 

 form a deep finlike angular projection with the hollow keel; rising 

 floor; round easy bilge; hollow, well-formed run; moderately raking, 

 straight sternpost; full, rounding stem, without overhang; rudder 

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