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there is a frame laid out from her to windward, to the end of which
is fattened a log, fafhioned into the fhape of a fmall boat, and made
hollow : The weight of the frame is intended to balance the Proa,
and the fmall boat is by its buoyancy (as it is always in the water)
to prevent her overfetting to windward ; and this frame is ufually
called an outrigger, The body of the Proa (at lead; of that we
took) is formed of two pieces joined end-wavs, and fewed together
with bark, for there' is. no iron ufed in her conftruflion : She is
about two inches thick at the bottom, which at the gunwale is reduced
to lefs than one : The dimenfions of each part will be better
known from the uprights and plans contained in the annexed
plate, which were drawn from an exadt menfuration; thefe I (hall
endeavour to explain as minutely and diftinftly as I can.
Fig. 1. Reprefents the Proa with her fail fet, as Ihe appears
when feen from the leeward.
Fig. 2. Is a view of the from her head, with the outrigger to
thé windward.
Fig. 3. Is the plan o f the whole; where (AB) is the lee-fide o f
the Proa; (CD) the windward-fide; (EFGH) the outrigger or
frame laid out to windward; (KL) the boat at the end o f i t ;
(MNPQ_J two braces from the head and item to fteady the
frame; (RS) a thin plank placed to windward, to prevent the
Proa from (hipping o f water ; this ferves too for a feat to the Indian
who bales, and fometimes goods are carried upon it. (I) is
the part of the middle outrigger, on which the matt is fixed : The
matt: itfelf is fupported (F ig . 2,) by the flrore (CD), and by the
ihroud (EF), and by two Rays, one of which may be feen, in
Fig. I, marked (CD), the other is hid by the fail : The fail (EFG)
in Fig. 1 , is of matting, and the matt, yard, boom, and out-
riggers, are all made of bamboo : The heel o f the yard is always
lodged in one of the fockets (T) or (V), Fig. 3, according to the
tack the Proa goes on ; and when (he alters her tack, they bear
away a little to bring her ftern up to the wind, then by eafing the
i halyard,