. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . ^ PRIMITIVE METHOD OF BOATBUILDING. 77 us in any way. Now as the raft, although most in other respects, had consumed a good deal of >-—r—-time in descending the 131 miles from Anna, I wasanxious to replace it by a more speedy mode of con-veyance, and the Sheikh midertook to find what Iwanted without any difficulty. Boatbuilding is aneveryday occupation at Hit, and is quite as simple asit was in the time when JSToah made an ark of gopher-wood, and pit
. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . ^ PRIMITIVE METHOD OF BOATBUILDING. 77 us in any way. Now as the raft, although most in other respects, had consumed a good deal of >-—r—-time in descending the 131 miles from Anna, I wasanxious to replace it by a more speedy mode of con-veyance, and the Sheikh midertook to find what Iwanted without any difficulty. Boatbuilding is aneveryday occupation at Hit, and is quite as simple asit was in the time when JSToah made an ark of gopher-wood, and pitched it within and without with pitch. * The self-taught shipwrights of Hit have neither Method ofdocks, nor basins, nor even slips, to facilitate their £^ingatlabour ; yet they can construct a serviceable boat in a Hlt-short time, with no other tools than an axe and a saw,with a ladle for pouring out the melted pitch, and aroller for smoothing it. The first process in thisprimitive mode of shipbuilding, is to choose a levelspot of ground, near the water, on which the car-penter traces the figure of the bottom of the
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