The villages were typically located near navigable water for easy transportation by dugout canoe. Zanzibar also has a large fishing and dugout canoe production. Columbus observed trade carried between Long Island and Cuba by dugout canoe. This type of boat is called monoxyl or dugout canoe. Nico Minardos were in a dugout canoe that overturned in the Huallaga River. Undaunted, however, Donald chops down the tree and tries to build a dugout canoe. In April 1998, a dugout canoe was found. A finished long dugout canoe with a nominal thickness still weighed over . The keel and the base of the hull is a simple dugout canoe. An Indian dugout canoe was found in the lake dating back nearly 4,400 years. A dugout canoe and other finds were made when the loch was drained. A dugout canoe or simply dugout is a boat made from a hollowed tree trunk. An 8000-year-old dugout canoe was found by archaeologists in Kuahuqiao, Zhejiang Province, in east China.