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MR. F. W. FITZSIMONS has sent me a fragment of wood from the dug-out canoe washed ashore in Algoa Bay, described by him in NATURE of May 21, and since referred to by other correspondents in these columns. I am naturally far from desirous of entering into the discussion on the exact origin of the canoe, but the results of my examination of the wood show, I think conclusively, that the canoe had its origin somewhere in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Burma or the Malay Peninsula, and that the Nicobar Islands cannot have furnished the particular timber from which it was made.
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RENDLE, B. Dug-out Canoe in Algoa Bay. Nature 120, 621 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120621a0
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