budgerow

• “Leaving the ghâts and devotees behind him, however, and floating down the stream in his capacious three-roomed budgerow, he passed Mirzapoor, Chunar, and even the holy city of Benares,”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844

• “When we arrived in India, an old servant of my husband's family, named Muckabeg, was sent to meet us at Patna to escort us to Lucknow; on entering our budgerow [13] he presented fourteen rupees to me, which were laid on a folded handkerchief.”

  Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society

• “It was indispensable to have with the budgerow a small boat for the accommodation of servants and for the cooking of food.”

  Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877

• “A baggage boat is always in attendance on a _budgerow_; she also carries the provisions and the servants, and the cooking apparatus.”

  Mark Seaworth

• “As the crew will not work at night, it is necessary, as it grows dark, to moor the budgerow to the shore.”

  Mark Seaworth

• “They had also a small canoe towing astern, in which, when the wind was contrary, and the budgerow had to bring up alongside the bank, they made excursions to the other side of the river or up one of its affluents.”

  The Young Rajah

• “Reginald drew the poor man -- now quite senseless -- into the canoe, and endeavoured to stanch the blood flowing from his wounds by tourniquets, formed of pieces of wood, round the upper parts of his legs; but his efforts were in vain, and before the canoe reached the budgerow the man was dead.”

  The Young Rajah

• “They had to proceed, for a considerable distance, up the river Ganges, in a budgerow.”

  The Young Rajah

• “The Khasi hills were accessible from India in the 19th century only by traveling by budgerow down the Hooghly river, through the”

  Mercury Rising 鳯女

• “_budgerow_, to the wretched and more than half rotten _dhingy_.”

  Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.

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