Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1871-1954 · New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company · leaf 15
d that a hollowed log wasmore buoyant and stable than an ordinary tree trunkand from this crude beginning rude dugout canoes 2 THE BOOK OF THE SAILBOAT were developed. Even today many races have neverprogressed beyond the hollowed-log state of boat-building and dugouts, forty or fifty feet in… … Primitive BoatsI—Dugout made from a log. 2—Birch bark canoe. 3—Eskimokyak made of skins. 4—Catamaran. 5—Turkish goofah. 6—East Indian balsa. 7—Malay proa. Quite a different type of savage craft were thecanoes of bark or skins. These may have been evolvedfrom dugouts but it is more likely that…
Boats and boating · Sailing
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