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Updated: June 19, 2025
Even the large sea-canoes are constructed on a similar principle; but they are really very wonderful boats for both speed and safety. A simple log of about thirty feet in length is hollowed out. This is tapered off at either end, so as to form a kind of prow.
Next morning Obanjo with his vessel turned up, and saying farewell to my kind host, Mr. Sanga Glass, I departed. She had the makings of a fine vessel in her; though roughly hewn out of an immense hard-wood tree: her lines were good, and her type was that of the big sea-canoes of the Bight of Panavia.
He gave a signal to certain of the Willamettes who had come up behind the rebellious leaders, as they stood confused and hesitating in the council. They were seized and their hands bound ere they could defend themselves; indeed, they made no effort to do so, but submitted doggedly. "Take them down the Wauna in the sea-canoes and sell them as slaves to the Nootkas who hunt seal along the coast.
Two or three men, provided with the necessary apparatus for trying out the oil, will, in the course of a week or two, obtain enough to load one of the large sea-canoes. Cocoa-nut oil is now manufactured in different parts of the South Seas, and forms no small part of the traffic carried on with trading vessels. A considerable quantity is annually exported from the Society Islands to Sydney.
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