Show idea of modern ship shil traced to egyptians shipbuilding had its birth on the banks banka of the lie nile kllc according to the belief of prof elliott smith expressed ID the london Magaz itie although he says nt at a very early period in the history of mankind mu oklin logs logg and dents of various kinds were used by ninny many people to cross narrow sheets of water or for paddling along const coast lines tile hie real history of boat began when the earliest cur liest dwellers ci on the banks of tile the nile tied together bundles of roods reeds to 10 make floats these simple craft not only determined tile form of the wooden ship chipi that succeeded them hut blit tile the methods of construction for making tile lie reed floats 1 e teina them together with cords mere ere also ildo adopted pled when wooden ships come to he built balt by add ing planks to tile the hollowed out ont 1091 which elt e ritually dc generated into tile mere keel of it the composite ship thus the carile bt egyptian term for shipbuilding was tile the word signifying fAng to bind kven even at the present time we still find upon the nile all these primitive types that lint nrc are of phases in the history of shipbuilding ding some of then them more than sixty centuries old |