Where No Boats Could Live

"Where No Boat Could Live," by Roger Fyfe

1. Where is Chatham Island, and what is the weather like there?

Answer: Chatham Island is near the Pacific ocean. The weather there is very strong and frequent storms.

2. Who were the first people to arrive there? How did they get there?

Answer: The got there in a huge double-hulled canoes. The first people that arrived there was the Moriori.

3. How did the Moriori live? Give some example of what they did to survive?

Answer: They grew taro, kumara, and yams and different kind of vegetable. Lucky there were water that they could catch seafoods.

4. What is a wash - through wake? What was it used for?

Answer: It’s a waka. It could carry loads of food and amount of large people.

5. Why were the wake korai and the wake paging so special?

Answer: Because they were perfectly suited to the local conditions

6. What do the words ballast and capsize mean?

Answer: The sea water became a natural ballast and actually helped the waka remain stable. This made them almost impossible to capsize

7. Please give a brief summary of the article.

Answer: The Moriori people lived like farmers and survivors

8. Why were the Moriori considered backward?

Answer: The Moriori people learned very fast to live in a new environment

9. What do you think about the skills and designs of the Moriori and why?

Answer: That they use patterns and designs on their boats and that they made their own boats and catch their own food to live.