bark-logs

Updated: June 26, 2025

The inhabitants of Colon are much given to fishing, for which purpose they venture out to sea in bark-logs. These are constructed of several round logs of wood, forming a raft, but different according to the uses they are intended for, or the customs of those that make them.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 : Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.

We were much encouraged by considering that in this very place, and about the same time of the year, Sir Thomas Candish took the Manilla ship. On the 16th we sent our bark to look for fresh water on the main, and next morning she returned to us, reporting that they had seen wild Indians, who paddled to them on bark-logs.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 : Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.