CANTIMARONS, or CATIMARONS, a kind of floats or rafts, used by the inhabitants of the coast of Coromandel to go a fishing in, and to trade along the coast. They are made of three or four small canoes, or trunks of trees dug hollow, and tied together with cacao ropes, with a triangular sail in the middle, made of mats. The persons who manage them are almost half in the water, there being only a place in the middle a little raised to hold their merchandize; which half particular is only to be understood of the trading cantimarons, and not of those who go fishing.