exlvi Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV. 
this Jong voyage is neither difficult nor dangerous in the fine weather 
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taking Oieik ie aes rigge - with them waaeeee poet "drifted t ° 
the Indian and Ceylon coasts, or took r ne va in the islands off the wes 
coast of Sumatra (the Mettawei islanders); the others passed to the 
myriad islands of the Pacific where considerable min ngling with the 
Oceanic Negroes took place pe certain island groups. That the Poly- 
nesians have been long settled in the chief main Pacific islands other 
than Hawaii and N aland, is proved reat divergence in 
esign met with in different areas. is however the focus of all 
these designs eir geographical distribution when n @ map 
shows that all rincipal forms radiate fan-like from New Guine 
culiarly interesting t to note with regard to g of Indo- 
nesi nd Pap n outrigger canoes is that the sail — is usually an 
antique form o nee lug ° pv — deen for meres n ith 
bamboo poles along each long side; the e peculi fig was oye 
in the Boro Budur ships, and it is this sail, ~ataohiiahy differen t alike from 
any modern Arab or Indian design and from any used by the ancient 
i i od Gre . 
Egyptians hoenicians a eks, that the Hamitic and negroid 
at employ in the naggars of the U per Nil h r 
ing as“in the some parts of the Far nd facts to- 
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nesian affinity, point suggestively to a connection between East Africa 
and Indonesia in far-off days, much stronger than has hitherto been 
suspected. 
The oe of the oculus in boat decoration.—By J. 
into disuse; survivals are still to be fous d on the "Purtacacks. Italian, 
ian an kk Ita. No Muhammadan boat 
en to spe- 
cially linked with the protection of Indian boats; probably this is a 
survival of a once universal belief cage pepoapts even for the English 
habit of considering all vessels as femin 
custom of employing the wtie in India was probably wide- 
