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being- placed so far forward these canoes do not lay 

 up close to the wind^ but when g-oing- free consider- 

 able speed may be obtained. 



Among the canoes which visited the ship one 

 was of a quite different construction from the rest 

 and resembled some of those which we had seen 

 while passing- along the northern side of Eossel 

 Island. It contained seven men^ and came from 



the eastward— probably from Piron Island. The 

 body of a canoe of this class is formed like the 

 other, or more common kind, of the hollowed out 

 trunk of a large tree, tapering- to a point and rising- 

 slightly at the ends, which, however, are alike and 

 covered over by a close-fitting piece of wood, each end 

 being thus converted into a hollow cone. The sides 

 are raised by a plank two feet high and end boards 

 forming a kind of long box, with the seams pitched 

 over. One side is provided with an outrigger simi- 



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