Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 304
necessary for the construction of thiscraft is an ax, an auger, and a hatchet, with somegood stout boys to wield them. For a large raft, collect six or seven logs, not i88i.] FLAT-BOATING FOR BOYS. 77 more than ten inches in diameter; they must be fire-place, and if the cabin is floored with… … MAN-FRIDAY CATAMARAN. sharpen one end; roll the log into the water, andthere secure it. Pick out two logs as nearly alikeas possible, to lie one at each side of the center-log. Measure the center-log, and make the pointof each side-log, not at its own center, but at thatside of it which will lie…
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