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though not wholly, by way of the Incense Land of Southern 

 Arabia. 



The preservation until the present time, in Burma and 

 further east, of the earliest known type of Egyptian sea-going ship, 

 which in Egypt itself was superseded by new developments in the 

 art of shipbuilding before 2000 B.C., indicates that before 

 the latter date these distinctively Egyptian models must have 

 reached the Indian Ocean, and on some part of its littoral 

 persisted until they were carried further east by a later 

 enterprise. 



Fig. 5, — Sketch of a toy model of an ancient Egyptian boat, 2600 b,c. 



