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A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD - 17
by H. G. Wells
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XVII THE FIRST SEAGOING PEOPLES The earliest boats and ships must have come into use some twenty-five or thirty thousand years ago. Man was probably paddling about on the water with a log of wood or an inflated skin to assist him, at latest in the beginnings of the Neolithic period. A basketwork boat covered with skin and caulked was used in Egypt and Sumeria from the beginnings of our knowledge. Such boats are still used there. They are used to this day in Ireland and Wales and in Alaska; sealskin boats still make the crossing of Behring Straits. The
The story of our world is a story that is still very imperfectly known. A couple of hundred years ago men possessed the history of little more than th...
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