CHAPTER VII 

 TRANSPORTATION ON WATER 



148. Primitive boats. Men living near the water in olden 

 times made boats of many kinds and of different materials 

 (Fig. 113). Although they may not have reasoned it out, they 



FIG. 113. Types of boats: 1. birchbark canoe; 2. Turkish goofah ; 3. canoe 

 with outrigger ; 4. catamaran. 



knew that the water displaced by a log caused it to float. 

 Hence to decrease its weight they burned or dug out the insides 

 of suitable logs, making the so-called dugout boats. In regions 

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