or CATIMARONS, a kind of floats or rafts, used by the inhabitants of the coast of Coromandel to go 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 rope, 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 merchandise; which last particular is only to be understood of the trading cantimarons, and not of those who go fishing.