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was roomy, and could contain about, 30 men. Thefe boat-Iioufe 



fometim.es 40 or 5 



yards long, ab 



yards wid 



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and the eves of the roof are brousrh't down within two or three feet 



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of the ground. Sometimes the fides of the roof are in the fliape 



of fegments of a circle meeting at the top^ 



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As I have here mentioned the large war 



f thefe 



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I will give a few hints relative to the ftrudiure of their. boats, 

 inhabitants of the Society-ifles diflinguifh their fmaller canoes 



CE-waha) * from the larger one5, fpaheej and' thefe are 



again 



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different as their ufes,. for fiiliing,, for long voyages from iile to ifle, . ^ 

 and for war. The latter have high flerns, and two of thefe boatSu 



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being always tied together, towards the, head of them ftands a 



ftage or platform fEtooteeJ raifed on fix or eight pillars about four 



or five feet high, and proportioned to the fize of the boati The 

 warriors flan d on thefe ftages and fight the enemies who defend the 



fhore. The boats are, commonly built of the timber of the 



E-avee or Spondias pomifera or the E-marra^m Nauclea orientalis. 



The keel is one piece of timber hollowed out, in the iliape of a 



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trough ; in very large boats they employ more than one piece for 



the 



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New-Zeeland with a ftronger founding of the afpirate h^ by faying Te^nvagga. In like 

 manner the word Teehee is changed into Tecghee^ the word Tahaia into Tangaia^ E-hoe oxEhobe 

 h in New-Zeeland Hogghscy Tohec is foggke^ Tarcha is Tariftga^ Toohana is Toogbana^ &c. &c. 



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