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defended on one or two fides either with boards, or a partition of 



bamboos, an 



d lined befides with mats, here the chief people fit 



day, and ileep at night. 



"The. refl of thefe boats are nearly of the 



fame ftruduie with the v/ar-boats j they have a mail, (E-teeraJ a 

 fail of mats in a frame (EiyaJ y at the top of the mail they carry a 



this bunch, of rods is named 



bufh of young, branches of a tree,, 



E'whatevay and from the top of the maft, or the uppermoft part 



of the frame of the fail, one or two long garlands of feathers are 



J 



two b 



hanging down called Mat\ttee. When they do not 

 together, but have only one,, acrofs the middle of it a long beam is 

 fixed, /P.7/t)^y' to which they faften on one fide fmall pieces of wood 

 pointing downwards and joined to a piece of fpar,., fiiaped like a keel, 

 i. e. triquetrous, which is nearly of the fame length with the boat. 



This out-rigger they call E 



d it is fafi:ened befides to the 



canoe by one or more crofs beams. Such an apparatus muii hinder 

 the boat from overfetting, and hardly retards the motion of the 



boat. 



The fwift proas at the Ladrone-iflands defcribed in Lord 

 Anfon's voyage round the world, give the bell: idea of the utility of 

 this apparatus. To the projeding crofs beams about the mail:, 

 the fhrowd's are fafi:ened, and on the fide oppofite to the out-rigger, 



they fallen fometimes a large Hone in order to trim the boat 



by it. 



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