Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . men can sit. But the morecarefully-built canoe, with a number of separateplanks raised from a keel, is the work of a distinctand not very numerous class of professed keel is laid in one piece, twenty-five to fiftyfeet long, as the size of the canoe may be, and tothat they add board after board, not by overlappingand nailing, but by sewing each close to its fellow,until they have raised some two, or, it may be, threefeet from the ground. These boards are not sawn,squared, and uni
Nineteen years in Polynesia: missionary life, travels, and researches in the islands of the Pacific . men can sit. But the morecarefully-built canoe, with a number of separateplanks raised from a keel, is the work of a distinctand not very numerous class of professed keel is laid in one piece, twenty-five to fiftyfeet long, as the size of the canoe may be, and tothat they add board after board, not by overlappingand nailing, but by sewing each close to its fellow,until they have raised some two, or, it may be, threefeet from the ground. These boards are not sawn,squared, and uniform, but are a number of pieces, orpatches, as they are called, varying in size fromeighteen inches to five feet long, as the wood splitup from the log with felling axes happens to suit;all, however, are well fastened together, and. withthe help of a little gum of the bread-fruit tree forpitch, the whole is perfectly water-tight. In dress-ing each board, they leave a ledge, or rim, all roundthe edge, which is to be inside, making it double thethickness at the edge to what it is in the middle of. A SAMOAN CANOE.
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