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joined together in the same manner as the war-boats, and 

 that they have a small neat house five or six feet broad by 

 seven or eight long fastened upon the fore-part of them, in 

 which the principal people, who use them very much, sit 

 while they are carried from place to place. The sailing 

 ivahahs have also this house upon them when two are joined 

 together, which is, however, but seldom. Indeed, the differ- 

 ence between these two consists almost entirely in the 

 rigging, and I have divided them into two more because 

 they are generally seen employed in very different occupa- 

 tions than from any real difference in their build. 



All ivahahs agree in the sides built like walls and the 

 bottoms flat. In this they differ from the pahie (Fig. 2), 

 of which the sides bulge out and the bottom is sharp, 

 answering, in some measure, instead of a keel. 



These pahies differ very much in size : I have seen 

 them from 30 to 60 feet in length, but, like the ivahahs, 

 they are very narrow in proportion to their length. One 

 that I measured was 51 feet in length, but only 1-J- feet in 

 breadth at the top (a) and 3 feet in the bilge (&, see Fig. 2). 

 This is about the general proportion. Their round sides, how- 

 ever, make them capable of carrying much greater burthens 

 and being much safer sea-boats, in consequence of which they 

 are used merely for fighting and making long voyages. For 

 purposes of fishing and travelling along shore the natives of 

 the islands where they are chiefly used have ivahahs. The 

 fighting pahies, which are the longest, are fitted in the same 

 manner as the fighting ivahahs, only as they carry far greater 

 burthens, the stages are proportionately larger. Two sailing 

 boats are most generally fastened together for this purpose ; 

 those of a middling size are said to be best, and least liable 

 to accident in stormy weather. In these, if we may credit 

 the reports of the inhabitants, they make very long voyages, 

 often remaining several months from home, visiting in that 

 time many different islands, of which they reported to us 

 the names of nearly a hundred ; they cannot, however, 

 remain at sea above a fortnight or twenty days, although 

 they live as sparingly as possible, for want of proper pro- 



