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               SHIPS, BOATS, RAFTS OF THE                   ASIA PACIFIC REGION                 A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST HISTORY                                                        OF                                               VOYAGING INTRODUCTION Thousands of years ago almost every community that had access to water in the form of lakes rivers or the vast sea learnt almost by instinct to travel on water using a variety of floating objects fashioned into what we now term as rafts. the raft above called rakit in Malay is found in numerous other countries especially plying people and goods and produce on...
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      BRAHMAPUTRA STORY FROM TIBET                                   Dr M P DEVA                                                                                UTAR, MALAYSIA         When one hears of Brahmaputra one thinks almost always of a huge river in India and in the eastern states like Assam  Actually The  Brahmaputra starts as the mighty Yarlung Tsang Po which itself  starts in western Tibet. Fed by the melt waters of numerous glaciers that coat the northern side of the massive Himalayan range. The mighty mountain range the highest in the world itself stretches from far west north of Afghanistan at heights of between 7 and 8000 meters to near Chengdu...
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