 | Alfred Cort Haddon - Ethnology - 1912 - 524 pages
...flags, dadu. Flinders gives the following account of the Miriam canoes as he saw them in Sept. 1792 : "Their canoes are about fifty feet in length, and...which form the gunwales are planks sewed on with the fibres of the cocoa nut, and secured with pegs. These vessels are low, forward, but rise abaft ; and,... | |
 | Sir Ernest Scott - Australia - 1914 - 614 pages
...some device. One had the form of a parrot's 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... | |
 | Robert Logan Jack - Cape York Peninsula (Qld.) - 1921 - 414 pages
...with eagerness, but appeared to set little value on anything else. . . . " Their canoes are about 50 feet in length, and appear to have been hollowed out of a single tree. . . . These vessels are low forward, but rise abaft, and being narrow are fitted with an outrigger... | |
 | Stuart B. Kaye - Law - 1997 - 224 pages
...fitted; and some of them were barbed. Their clubs are made of the casuarina and are powerful weapons... Their canoes are about fifty feet in length, and appear...which form the gunwales are planks sewed on with the fibres of the cocoa nut [sic], and secured with pegs. These vessels are low, forward, but rise abaft;... | |
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One had the form of a parrot's 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 ; but the pieces which form the gunwales are planks sewed on with... 