History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 181
3. 2 Arrian, Periplus, e. 44. MERCHANT SHIPPING. 131 and of the habits of its population, tends to show thatthey have adhered to established types with even morethan Oriental tenacity.1 In the Asiatic Researches (vol. vi. p. 204) is a representation of one of theoldest Chinese merchant vessels… … be noticed as forming an exact counterpart of manyof the Egyptian vessels engaged on the trade of theNile, and, more especially, that called paro, anotherdescription of trading craft very common in China;while the account given by Sir George Stauntonof some of the small vessels of China exhibits a…
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