ends, by. two frames of wood, placed on the oppofite fides of the,deck
near the fare-mall, and is turned about as, upon an axis, by levers called
handfbecs which are fear this purpofe.thruft intp holes bored through the
body of the machine.
WOOLDING, the a<5t of winding a piece of rope about a mail or
yard, to fupport it in a place where it may have been fijkui or fcarfedor
when it is compofed of feyeral pieces.united into one folid.
Y.
YARD, a long piece of timber fufpended upon the malls of a Ihip,
to extend the fails to the wind.
YAW, the movement by which a ihip deviates from the line of her
■ courfe towards the right or left in fleering.
A I D E S C R I P T I O N of the C U T S ,
I. -A view of the Indians of Terra del Fuego in their init-
II'. A -view of Matavia Bay in Otaheite j called by Captain Wallis, Port
Royal Harbour in King George the Third's Ifland.. The view is taken*
from One Tree Hill, and the tree is-a new fpeeies of the Erythrina.
HI. A-view in the-Ifland of Ulietea, with a double canoe and a boat-houfe*
IV. A view of che Ifland of Otaheite, with feveral veflels of that ifland.
IT. A view in the Ifland of Otaheite ; with the houfe or Ihed called Tu-
papow, under which -the dead are depofked, and a reprefentation o f
the perfon who perforins the principal part in the funeral ceremony in;
his peculiar drefs| with a man climbing the bread- fruit tree to get out
of his way..
VI. A view in the Ifland of Huaheine; with the Ewkarra. no Eafua, or
Houfe of God; a fmall altar with its offering; and a tree called
Owharra with which the houfes are thatched.
VII. A .view of the inflde pf a ho*fe in the Ifland of Ulietea, with the
reprefentation of a dance to the mufie of the country.
VIII. A military gorget worn in the South Sea Iflands.
IX. The fir ft two figures-, reckoning from the left hand, are chiflelis or
gouges;. the third, an adze ©£ the finaller kind; the fourth,, the inftru—
ment with which the bread-fruit is beaten into pafte; the fifth, the
nafal flute;- the fixth, a- thatching needle; the feventh, the inftrument
ufed for beating, the cloth, over, which is afquare reprefenting the end
of it, to fhew the different fize of the grooves on- the four fldes; the
number of which is exprefled in figures-
X. The firft figure, reckoning from the left hand,- is an adze of the-
larger fize;. the fecond and third are different reprefentations of the
upper part of it, to fhew. the manner of tying the ftone to the handle;,
the fmaller figures are tattowing inftruments;. to pierce the Ikin, of different
fizes, with and without their handles; thelaft is the inftrumenfi
with which they are ftruck. for that purpofe.
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