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Updated: May 7, 2025
Their monoxyla, or one-oared canoes, loaded with silks, furs, and precious metals, issued from the Borysthanes, traversed the Baltic and the Euxine, the Oder and the Bosphorus, the Danube and the Black Sea, and carried on the commerce between the Turks and the Slavonians.
All we want is a one-oared gondola, and I cannot believe that with the help of money you will be unable to find a boatman on whom we may rely." I understood from these expressions that she suspected me of becoming cold towards her, and this suspicion pierced me to the heart. "Listen," said I, "I will be the boatman myself.
All we want is a one-oared gondola, and I cannot believe that with the help of money you will be unable to find a boatman on whom we may rely." I understood from these expressions that she suspected me of becoming cold towards her, and this suspicion pierced me to the heart. "Listen," said I, "I will be the boatman myself.
From these several causes a one-oared boat in Venice is propelled by a gondolier, who stands on a little angular deck in its stern, formed like the low roof of a house, and the stroke of the oar is given by a push, instead of a pull, as is common elsewhere.
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