Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo by Captain Basil Hall H. G. Rawlinson

Author:Captain Basil Hall, H. G. Rawlinson [Captain Basil Hall, H. G. Rawlinson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138867734
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2015-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

1 [These catamarans, to use the Tamil term, are not really canoes at all, but rafts made of lashed logs.]

1 [Surf-boat.]

1 [H.M.S. Minden, a 74, was the first ship of its size to be built in the Bombay dockyards. Its builder, the famous Jamsetjee Bomanjee, was presented with a cup by the Admiralty, who were delighted with its beautiful lines. Bombay dockyard, under the Lowjee Wadia family, earned a great reputation during the 18th century for the fine battleships and frigates built there. Being of teak, they resisted gunfire better than oak, and were less liable to rot. Another fine Bombay vessel was the Cornwallis, p. 168.]

1 [A similar story is told of the huge bell at the N.E. corner of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon. After the second Burmese War, the English tried to carry it off to Calcutta, but by accident it was sunk to the bottom of the river. The Burmese got permission to raise it, and did so in a marvellous manner, by means of lashed bamboos.]

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