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The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

CHAPTER 3
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Their clubs are made of casuarina, and are powerful weapons.

The hand part is indented, and has a small knob, by which the firmness of the grasp is much assisted; and the heavy end is usually carved with some device.

One had the form of a parrots head, with a ruff round the neck, and was not ill done.
"Their canoes are about fifty feet in length, and appear to have been hollowed out of a single tree; and the pieces which form the gunwales are planks sewed on with fibres of the cocoanut and secured with pegs.

These vessels are low forward, but rise abaft; and, being narrow, are fitted with an outrigger on each side to keep them steady.

A raft, of greater breadth than the canoe, extends over about half the length, and upon this is fixed a shed or hut, thatched with palm leaves.


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