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a small craft could live in the roughest sea, 
throws a good deal of light upon the 
possible migrations of prehistoric peoples, 
whose vessels were undoubtedly small and 
imperfect, but whose skill in managing 
them was unquestionably very great. 
tion for some time before he put it into 
actual practice, and having been on many 
whaling voyages, he was able to obtain 
clear ideas of the conditions required, and 
to work out the plans necessary for comply- 
ing with them. 
Fig. 1.— THE LITTLE BOAT THAT CROSSED THE ATLANTIC. 
The voyage was undertaken by Captain 
Crapo, more in a spirit of daring adventure 
than of scientific research, but the same 
may be said of all the balloon voyages 
which are made, with, perhaps, one or two 
exceptions. The project occupied his atten- 
The "New Bedford," which is named 
after the city from which she sailed, resem- 
bles in model an ordinary whale-boat, but 
has rather more dead rise. She was built 
by Mitchel, of New Bedford, and is cob- 
structed of cedar on an oak frame, planked 
