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slve amount of labour. The ordinary war-boat 

 carries from sixty to seventy men seated two abreast 

 on the cross-benches. It is steered by the paddles 

 of the two bow-men and the four next the stern. 



Fig. 29, 



One of these war-boats, manned by sixty or seventy 

 paddlers, can maintain a pace about equal to that of 

 our University racing eights.^ 



1 On one occasion on which a race between twenty-two of these war-boats 

 was rowed at Marudi on the Baram river, we timed the winning-boat over 

 the down-stream course of four and half miles. The time was twenty-two 

 minutes thirteen seconds. 



