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A Dingey and a Dowe (உரு/Uru) | The one on the left is capable of carrying cannon, acc. to Col. James | Malabar Vessels

The Arab Dowe, or at least the Dowe which is built forthe Arabs and Moors at Cochin, Goa, and other sea-portson this coast, is like a large ship in the hull, with a highstern, quarter-galleries, Sec, gradually falling off forward,and ending in a grab head. They are immensely largeand unwieldy, and have only half a keel ; a large clumsymast is fastened in the middle, and they carry one im-mense sail, with sometimes an apology for a jib. I believemore of these vessels perish in the Indian seas than of any other description ; not that they are more insecure than the next to be noticed, but the latter are less common.

The Dingey is the most antediluvian of all the Eastern vessels, and I am inclined to think the most unsafe ; but they are not very numerous in any ports I have fre- quented. It is a slight, ill-formed boat, very low in the centre, with a mat covering, and an enormous top-heavy stern, sometimes several stories high. Some of them even carry cannon in the upper stories ; and I have known two or three wrecked, and their crews wholly lost, when other vessels weathered the same gale, and got safe to harbour.