Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 429
A MULETA, OR PORTUGUESE FISHING-BOAT. the extreme narrowness of beam, an outrigger,to which a hollow, boat-shaped log is attached,extends from this side, so that the proa is acatamaran with one hull much smaller thanthe other. In sailing her a man sits in each end, steering with a paddle when the… … AN ESKIMO IN HIS KAYAK. 1897. ] SOME QUEER CRAFT. 417 the flying proa — double-ended, with differ-ing sides, one always lee, the other always wea-ther — is made possible by the direction of thetrade-winds and the fact that the LadroneIslands lie in a line almost due north and south,so that these…
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