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and the sides deep ; the depth from the upper edge of the 
middle to the keel^ was not less than twelve feet. It was 
built with thick planks of the Barringtonia^ some of which 
were four feet wide; they were sewn together with cocoa- 
nut cinetj and although they brought the chief safely, 
probably more than six hundred miles, they must 
have been very ungovernable and unsafe in a storm or 
heavy sea. 
