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Fig. 134. Wâchc of Kajô, exceptionally sailing with the stern foremost. 



but exactly on the side of the outrigger, where the weather side is, can be easily seen. 

 At Tumleo (Erd'WEG [1902, 367]) the mast is placed on the side-board, on the side of 

 the outrigger; the large craft hâve however fixed masts, which is not the case in H. B. ; 

 hère craft, with two 

 masts, as reported by 

 FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 191] 

 of Finsch Harbour, are 

 not met with either. 



The mast placed 

 in one of the âbe geiiû, 

 then leans forward 



against the front ath- 

 wartship samrari and 

 is maintained in this 

 position by a forestay, 

 from the head to the 

 stem ; a second stay, 

 the middle one on fig. 

 134, often passes round 

 the outside end of a 

 cross pôle and from 

 hère runs back to the 



foot of the mast, which it encircles together with the samrari. To take this rope outside, 

 curiously enough, one of the sailors has to jump overboard for a moment. The third stay is 

 nothing else but the fall. 

 Ail thèse ropes are manu- 

 facturée! out of bark fibres ; 

 I never came across rattan 

 ropes, as seen by PARKINSON 

 [1900, 30] in Berlin Har- 

 bour. The hoisting of the 

 sail by one man, I saw 

 performed in this way, that 

 the rolled-up sail, held in 

 the right arm bent upward, 

 on the weatherside of the 

 mast, rolled off" at the top, 

 with each pull with the left 

 hand at the fall, running 

 over the head of the mast. 

 Whilst changing his hold with the left hand, our practical sailor held each time the fall 

 with his teeth. When the sail is unfurled the fall is generally belayed at a point towards 

 the stern. With a steady breeze and a fixed course, the sheet is also belayed. The danger 



Fig. 135. Wâche of Humboldt Bay, pulled on the shore. 



