Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1926, Page 130

ME USE OF BOATS BEGAN AS A RESULT ~~ ./~ ’ls ELEMENTAL EXPERIMENTS IN OF THE NEED OF PREHMISTORIC MAN FOR Ee SOME MEANS OF CROSSING BODIES OF WATER IN HIS CONSTANT SEARCH FoR BETTER HUNTING GROUNDS. HE PRINCIPLE OF SHELL-LIKE BOATS MAY HAVE BEEN FIRST DISCOVERED WHEN SOME NEOLITHIC WOMAN ,DRAWING WATER' FROM THE RIVER, FOUND THAT AN EARTHENWARE BOWL WOULD FLOAT. [ ENTURIES PASSED 'AND AS METAL TOOLS WERE DEVELOPED MAN BEGAN BULILDING SEAWORTHY BOATS. HE HAb LEARNED THE ELEMENTS OF NAVIGATION IN THE RIVERS AND NOW VENTORED ouT TO SEA ,-FIRST AS A FISHERMAN AND THEN AS A TRADER BARTERING WITH DISTANT TRIBES. HES! CONSTRUCTION OF THE RAFT PROPELLED BY POLES AND PADDLES. 7 = THIS DIRECTION PROBABLY BEGAN WITH THE DISCOVERY THAT A FLOATING TREE TRUNK WOULD BEAR HIS WEIGHT INTHE WATER, E IDEAS LED INTIME TO THE @ ND THEN, ONE WINDY DAY SOME PRIMITIVE MAN NOTICED FOR THE FIRST TIME, THAT THE BREEZE BLOWING AGAINST THE WRAP OF SKINS HE WORE WAS PUSHING HIS RAFT BEFORE IT. 5 A RESULT THE CORACLE WAS BUILT, A LIGHT CRAFT e OF WICKER' FRAMEWORK MARKE N \ L WATER-TIGHT WITH BITUMEN : : p: OR COVERED WITH HIDES . R 3 NOTE “= OARS CAME INTO USE AT A LATER DATE . Pill s THE DIFFERENT TRIBES WERE OFTEN AT WAR, BOATS WERE EARLY USED TO MAKE RAIDS ON ENEMIES ACROSS THE —— If You Save This Page. Each Week You Will Have a Complete History of Man. HE NEXT STEP wWAS MADE WHEN MAN FOUND THAT BY PADDLING IN THE WATER WITH A STICK HE COULD SET IN MOTION THE LOG THAT CARRIED HIM. S TIME \WENT, ON, THE CONSTRUCT- 10N OF BOATS WAS IMPROVED AND AT THE DAWN OF THE HISTORIC PERIOPD WE FIND VESSELS PROPELLED BY PADDPLES AND SAILS ON THE NILE AMD RED SEA . HIS AMAZING DISCOVERY SET MAN THINKING AND BEFORE LONG ,PERHAPS, HE HAD RIGGED THE FIRST CRUDE SAIL OF SKINS UPON HIS RAFT. 7 Ef s e ) { o EN OF PREHISTORIC TIMES ALSO ¥, £ € S MADE BOATS FROM WHOLE TREE TRUNKS , LABORIOUSLY HOM-OWING THEM OUT WITH FIRE AND THEIR ROUGH CHOPPING IMPLEMENTS.