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II. OUTRIGGERS are very varied in their structure. In some canoes there are two opposite one another, one of which does not touch the water; it is merely a balance platform; in some both outriggers only occasionally touch the water. It is not improbable that the side-galleries of some junks are developed out of balance platforms, and that the ledges known as the “chains” of modern European vessels are of similar origin. The rudder is merely a development of the steering paddle. It is still merely a fixed paddle, being worked by an operator with his face in the direction in which the boat is moving, whilst oars have taken the place of all the other paddles of the boat.
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General Pitt Rivers' (Lane Fox) Anthropological Collection 1 . Nature 22, 511–514 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022511d0
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