hoomaru

Updated: May 26, 2025

There were represented: the birch-bark canoe from Alaska a Norwegian steamship in miniature the bimba or log canoe from Africa the Bohemian propeller corials from British Guiana the Japanese pleasure-boat "Hoomaru" the padda boats from Ceylon the caique from Turkey; furthermore, models of Spanish war-vessels Malay boats Swedish ice-yachts folding boats from Canada Chinese war-ships barges from Burmah French torpedo boats characteristic coast-vessels from India Venetian gondolas Dutch coast sailing boats the caravels, Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta, exhibited by Genoa Siamese boats life-boats naptha launches and a great number of small craft shown by the United States.

Johanna S. Wisthaler - By Water to the Columbian Exposition