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What Skips Carry. 



fishes as he floats, and puts the fish into the jar that is at 

 once his support and his storehouse. Other races use 

 rafts, bark canoes, hollow logs called dug-outs, and boats 

 of basket-work covered with skins. 





10. Then came the 

 idea of a mast with a 

 sail of skin or matting. 

 As soon as men learned 

 how to make planks 

 they used them to 

 make boats. These in- 

 creased in size, as did 

 their sails, until large 

 enough to be called 

 sloops or schooners or 

 ships, which can carry- 

 hundreds of men and 

 thousands of tons of 



merchandise for thousands of miles across a 

 trackless ocean. 



1 1. The immense quantities of cotton, corn, 

 wheat, butter, cheese, petroleum, beef, pork, and 

 other articles which are being shipped to Eu- 

 rope every year bring great wealth to this 

 country. 



1 2. When men discovered the power of steam, 

 they made steamboats and steamships. These* 

 move over the water by means of the power 

 of the vapor of water, that we call steam. 



A Chinese Junk. 



