NOTES ON FISHING METHODS OF THE SOUTH SEAS. 829 
Only an inferior type of dugout is now seen; the original design 
has long since departed. The canoe now used averages 27 feet long, 
18 inches wide, and 13 inches deep; width carried well forward; straight 
on the bottom; little or no sheer, and fullatthe bowand stern. There 
is no attempt to decorate these canoes; they are as plain as it is possible 
to make them. 
There is no platform or framework on the outrigger, only two cross- 
pieces, fastened to the float by wooden pins, and to the gunwales by 
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seizings; outrigger float, made of hard wood, 9 feet long, 7 inches 
wide, and 8 inches deep; sharp at each end. 
On account of the harbor being shallow in most parts very little 
paddling is done; a man stands in each end and with long poles pushes 
the canoe along at a good rate of speed. There is very little occasion 
for going outside of the harbor, which in a measure may account for 
no larger or better canoes being built. 
