trapze

Updated: May 31, 2025

I saw one circus-boat with a ring twenty-five feet in diameter upon it, in which a troop of horsemen, acrobats, and flying trapze artists performed while their boat was tied to a landing. The occupants of the shanty-boats float upon the stream with the current, rarely doing any rowing with their heavy sweeps.

Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop - Four Months in a Sneak-Box