10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MASOOLAH»
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The oriental interpreter and treasury of East India ...
MASOOLAH BOATS. The construction of keeled boats being, in many respects,
unsuitable to intercourse between the shipping and the shore at Madras, where
the surf runs very high, a peculiar kind of country boat, adequate to the purposes
...
Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, 1848
she had not seen him; and at six o'clock the next morning, she was put into a “
masoolah” boat, with her mistress and her mistress's guard of honour, and had
no time thenceforth to think of anything but the bustling scene about her, and her
own ...
3
Memoir of the first centenary of the earliest Protestant ...
It was stated to me verbally, but I know not how truly, that the Town Major and
others who were waiting to receive him on the beach, on the accommodation
masoolah boat coming to the surf, were induced to suppose that some thing had
...
William Taylor (orientalist, missionary.), 1847
4
A Treatise on Marine Architecture, elucidating the theory of ...
A masoolah boat, from having no floor timber, the planks which form her flat
bottom being sowed together, the incumbent weight of its sides settles down until
they become water-borne, consequently the center of the boat's'bottom curves ...
5
The Anglo-Indian Passage, Homeward and Outward; Or, A Card ...
The Masoolah boat is very pliable and buoyant. The boards are fastened
together with the fibrous coat of the cocoa-nut. There is not a nail used in them.
The sides are raised extremely high to keep off the spray, but this gives the boat
an ...
David Lester Richardson, 1845
The passengers descend a ladder into a Masoolah boat — an extraordinary affair
, made of flexible planks, sewn together with cocoa-nut fibre. It is crossed with
narrow seats, upon which the passengers roost, with their legs dangling in the air
...
7
The General East-India Guide and Vade-mecum ... in British ...
At a little distance, the masoolah-boats appear like rude imitations of English coal
-barges. They row from ten to sixteen oars, and, when unladen, make more
speed than persons accustomed to wherries, or to ships' pinnaces, would expect,
...
John-Borthwick Gilchrist, 1825
8
The East India Vade-Mecum Or Complete Guide to Gentlemen ...
These masoolah-boats may carry from forty to sixty tons ; they are made of plank,
about two inches' in thickness above, and three below, fastened together by
means of coir ; that is, the fibres of cocoa-nut rinds, passed through small holes ...
Thomas H. Williamson, 1810
9
The East India vade-mecum; or, complete guide to gentlemen ...
These masoolah-boats may carry from forty to sixty tons ; they are made of plank,
about two inches in thickness above, and three below, fastened together by
means of coir ; that is, the fibres of cocoa-nut rinds, passed through small holes ...
Thomas Williamson (capt.), 1810
10
The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum: For the Public ...
At a little distance, the masoolah-boats appear like rude imitations of English coal
-barges. They row from ten to sixteen oars, and, when unladen, make more
speed than persons accustomed to wherries, or to ships' pinnaces, would expect,
...
John Borthwick Gilchrist, 1825
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MASOOLAH»
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Madras miscellany: 'The Father of the Congress'
Masoolah boats, a hand-coloured lithograph by John Gantz, 1827;. Fort St. George in the East Indies, a hand-coloured copper plate etching ... «The Hindu, Jan 15»
