counterweight

Updated: June 12, 2025

They place a counterweight in one end of their canoes, and rig on them lateen-like sails made of palm-mats. Calms must be avoided and the trade winds caught, in order to facilitate navigation.

- The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 02 of 55 : 1521-1569 : Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century