basket-boats

Updated: June 1, 2025

There, where the forest stood, from north to south and from east to west, spreads a wide field of rich fertility. There, on those rivers where the basket-boats once sailed, rise the taut spars of England's navy. Where the rude hamlet rested on its banks in rural solitude, the never-weary din of commerce rolls through the city of the world.

Sir Samuel White Baker - Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon

And after he had become lord of all the country of the Ballagate, he passed the river of Duree, which forms the boundary of the territories of the Ballagate and of those of the King of Bisnaga, which river he passed in basket-boats without finding any one to oppose the passage.

Fernão Nunes - A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): a contribution to the history of India