Excerpt from A Tea Planter's Life in Assam: With Seventy-Five Illustrations by the Author

Each steamer tows up one or two ¿ats (the number depending on the amount of cargo expected), lashed to her sides by strong hawsers and wire cables. The ¿ats are built somewhat like the steamer, without chimney stacks, are rather more bluff in the bows.

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