History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 106
ed togetherwhen descending the Nile, much like the monkey-boats, or wussers, employed on the Thamesor Severn. In the cabin a man is represented, in-flicting the bastinado on a boatman; an occurrenceprobably not unusual, as we find it on the ordinarycattle-barge of the period. In the same boat a… … evidently making a rope fast to bind it together, itmay be inferred that such houses were chiefly usedwhen these vessels were employed in the conveyanceof cattle, and that they could be removed at pleasure.Beat for In Champollions great work, we find a sketch ofvoyanceof another boat, in this…
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