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Bombay Machva

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English: Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum

Identifier: bulletinunitedst1271923unit Year: 1877 (1870s) Authors: United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior Subjects: Science Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: CATALOGUE OF THE WATERCRAFT COLLECTION. 265 very largely of coir twine, which is even yet used a good deal for the purpose, especially in the upper works. The machva has little gear besides her simple rigging. A grapnel of six arms, weighing from 60 to 100 pounds, a dozen long paddles and as many bamboo poles about 15 feet long, a small, heavy box filled with sand to serve as a caboose, two leathern buckets, and a lantern form the whole of her

Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 87. BOMBAY "• .MACHVA. inventory, and with these on board a boat of 12 tons has probably cost from four to five hundred rupees to rig and fit. The model shows a wooden, carvel-built, open, keel boat; with long, sharp, overhanging bow; strongly raking, straight stem, pro- jecting some distance above the gunwale and extending below to form a deep finlike angular projection with the hollow keel; rising floor; round easy bilge; hollow, well-formed run; moderately raking, straight sternpost; full, rounding stem, without overhang; rudder 24166—23 IS

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