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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 
iwahahs 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 wahahs 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 wahahs, 
they are very narrow in proportion to their length. One 
that I measured was 51 feet in length, but only 14 feet in 
breadth at the top (a) and 3 feet in the bilge (6, 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 iwahahs. 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- 
