Chapter VI: The Flood

1 What were some of the great early catastrophes?

2 What was probably the earliest sort of power used to propel a boat
or raft?

3 What would we naturally expect the first boats or floats to be?
Why?

4 Would it be possible to build a raft with nothing but stone tools?

5 How would you fasten such a raft together?

6 What were the first natural paddles?

7 Can you propel a boat through the water with your hands?

8 How could a boy live in a great banyan tree for several days?

9 Where would he secure food?

10 Could you make a hollow in a log without steel knives or saws or
other modern tools? How?

11 Would such a hollow log serve as a crude boat?