 | David Laing Purves - Discoveries in geography - 1874 - 856 pages
...foot of the sail there is another small yard, to keep the sail out square, and to roll up the sail on when it blows hard ; for it serves instead of a reef to take up the sail to what degree they please, according to the strength of the wind. Along the belly-side of the boat, parallel with it, at about... | |
 | Charles Rathbone Low - Discoveries in geography - 1881 - 368 pages
...277-79. stands exactly in the middle, with a long yard that peeps up and down like a ship's mizzen-yard; one end of it reaches down to the end of the boat,...seven feet distance, lies another boat or canoe, very emall, being a log of very light wood, almost as long as the great boat, but not above a foot and a... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - Science - 1897 - 788 pages
...foot of the sail there is another small yard, to keep the sail out square, and to roll up the sail on when it blows hard ; for it serves instead of a reef to take up the sail to what degree they please, according to the strength of the wind. Along the belly side of the boat, parallel with it, at 6ft.... | |
 | Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson - Demarcation line of Alexander VI. - 1906 - 308 pages
...foot of the Sail there is another small Yard, to keep the Sail out square, and to roll up the Sail on when it blows hard; for it serves instead of a Reef to take up the Sail to what degree they please, according to the strength of the Wind. Along the Belly-side of the Boat, parallel with it, at about... | |
 | William Edwin Safford - 1905 - 576 pages
...foot <>f the sail there is another small yard to keep the sail out square anil to roll up the .sail on when it blows hard; for it serves instead of a reef to take up the sail to what degree they please, according to the strength of the wind. Along the belly side of the lx>at, parallel with it, at alxiut... | |
 | United States National Herbarium - Botany - 1905 - 570 pages
...foot of the sail there is another small yard to keep the sail out square and to roll up the sail on when it blows hard; for it serves instead of a reef to take up the sail to what degree they please, according to the strength of the wind. Along the lielly side of the lx>at, parallel with it, at about... | |
 | Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson - Demarcation line of Alexander VI. - 1906 - 308 pages
...foot of the Sail there is another small Yard, to keep the Sail out square, and to roll up the Sail on when it blows hard; for it serves instead of a Reef to take up the Sail to what degree they please, according to the strength of the Wind. Along the Belly-side of the Boat, parallel with it, at about... | |
 | C. H. Forbes-Lindsay - Philippines - 1906 - 678 pages
...foot of the sail there is another small yard to keep the sail out square and to roll up the sail on when it blows hard ; for it serves instead of a reef to take up the sail to what degree they please, according to the strength of the wind. Along the belly side of the boat, parallel with it, at about... | |
 | Elsdon Best - Architecture, Māori - 1916 - 808 pages
...t! of the sail there is another small yard, to keep the sail out square, and to roll up the sail ui it blows hard : for it serves instead of a reef to take up the sail to what degree they please, according to the strength of the Wind. Along the belly-side of the Boat, parallel with it, at about... | |
 | Science - 1897 - 798 pages
...foot of the sail there is another small yard, to keep the sail out square, and to roll up the sail on when it blows hard ; for it serves instead of a reef to take up the sail to what degree they please, according to the strength of the wind. Along the belly side of the boat, parallel with it, at 6ft.... | |
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... end or head of the Boat, where it is placed in a notch, that is made there purposely to receive it, and keep it fast. The other end hangs over the Stern: To this Yard the Sail is fastened. At the foot of the Sail there is another small Yard, to keep... 
