Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . A SAMOAN SAMOAN BOAT. CANOES. 267 tlie board. It is through this ledge or rim they borethe holes, and with a few turns of cinnet, sew tightone board to the other. The sewing only appearson the inside. Outside all is smooth and neat; andit is only on close inspection you can see that thereis a join at all. They have timbers, thwarts, andgunwale, to keep all tight; and over a few feet atthe bow and the stern they have a deck, under whichthey can stow away anything. The decked par
Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . A SAMOAN SAMOAN BOAT. CANOES. 267 tlie board. It is through this ledge or rim they borethe holes, and with a few turns of cinnet, sew tightone board to the other. The sewing only appearson the inside. Outside all is smooth and neat; andit is only on close inspection you can see that thereis a join at all. They have timbers, thwarts, andgunwale, to keep all tight; and over a few feet atthe bow and the stern they have a deck, under whichthey can stow away anything. The decked part atthe bow is the seat of honour, and there you gene-rally see the chief of the travelling party sittingcross-legged, at his ease, while the others arepaddling. The width of a canoe varies from eighteen tothirty inches ; the length, from fifteen to fifty for an outrigger, it would be impossible to keepsuch a long, narrow thing steady in the water. Theoutrigger may be described, in any boat, by layingoars across at equal distances, say one right abovea thwart. Make fast the handle of each oar to thegunwale on th
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