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...