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Manners & Customs of S. Sea Islands

from place to place The sailing Ivahas have also sometimes this house upon them when they are joind two & two together which is but seldom however, indeed the difference between these two consists almost intirely in the rigging & I have divided them into two more because they are generaly seen employd in very different occupations than from any real difference in their built. All Ivahas however agree in that they are built wall sided & with flat bottoms in which they differ from the Pahie fig. II: whose sides are built rounding out or bilging as it is calld & her bottom sharp which answers in some measure instead of a Keel

These Pahies differ very much in size I have seen them from 60 to 30 feet in lenght but like the Ivahas they are very narrow in proportion to their lengh one that I measurd was 51 feet in lengh & in breadth at the top (a) only 1½ ft & in the bilge (b) 3 feet which is about the general proportion their round sides however make them capable of carrying much greater burthens & being much more safe sea boats in consequence of which they are usd merely for fighting & making long voyages for the purposes of fishing & traveling along shore the natives of

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