Besides these common houses there are others much larger, 200 feet long and upwards 30 broad and 20 _^ⁱⁿ height. There are generaly two or three of these in every district, and seem'd not only built for the accommodation of the principal people but common to all the inhabitants of that district and raised and kept up by their joint labour; these are always without walls and have generaly a large area on one side neatly inclosed with low pallisades &C^a —

Their Canoes or Proes are built all of them very narrow and some of the largest are 60 or 70 feet long   these co[n]sist of several peices, the bottom is round and made and made of large logs hollowed out to the thickness of about 3 Inches and may consist of three or four peices, the sides are of plank of nearly the same thickness and are built nearly perpendicular rounding in a little towards the gunwale.   the peices in which they are built are well fited and fasten'd _^ ^{or sew'd together with strong platting}together something in the same manner as old China wooden bowls &C^a are mended.   the greatest breadth is at the after part which is generaly about 18 or 20 Inches and the fore part about 1/3 narrower, the height from the bottom to the gunwale seldom exceeds 2½ or 3 feet; they build them with high curv'd sterns which are generaly ornimented with carved work.   the head or fore part curves little or nothing. The smaller - Canoes are built after the same Plan some out of one, two or more trees according to their size or the use they are for   In order to prevent them from overseting when in the water:  all those that go single both great and small have what is call'd outriggers which are peices _^ ^of wood fasten'd

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