DESCRIPTION OF BOAT 67 
in my opinion, the cabin. This was about sixteen feet 
long by eight broad, with nearly seven feet head room. 
Owing to the flat nature of the floor of the boat there 
were no awkward triangular lockers or cupboards, but 
the whole inside was as square as a room in a house 
ashore, and was thus available to be made use of in 
the most advantageous manner for shelves and lockers. 
A doorway was fitted at the fore and after ends, with 
a booby-hatch over each and steps leading down from 
the deck (for the floor of the cabin was only four inches 
from the flat bottom of the boat), a ventilator being 
fitted above. The roof was slightly rounded and 
covered with English sail-cloth well painted; windows 
were fitted at the sides, to which were attached wooden 
blinds. There was a gangway space of a foot on each 
side of the cabin, forming a deck plank or waterway to 
the gunwale. Just before and just abaft the cabin were 
secured by lashings to the frame of the boat two 
athwartships spars of about six inches in diameter, and 
projecting a foot beyond either gunwale. Great care was 
taken in their fitting and securing, as they play an im- 
portant part in the tracking up-stream as well as being 
a support for the huloes or sculls, which are worked 
on a small pin driven into their outer ends. The huloes 
were about thirty feet’'long and made in two pieces, 
the blade and the loom. ‘The blade is a plank or 
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