![Another remarkable stern! Is that an oar or a rudder? I think it’s a yuloh with a poop deck built over it - the oarsman is standing just aft of the cabin… behind the drummer.
If I’m talking a strange language, here’s a video of the yuloh in action. It’s a remarkable way to get a boat from point A to point B - not unlike a gondola or a Bahamian scull. A single oar that steers and propels at the same time.
A mandarin’s travelling boat.
From The costume of China, written and illustrated by William Alexander, London, 1805.
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Another remarkable stern! Is that an oar or a rudder? I think it’s a yuloh with a poop deck built over it - the oarsman is standing just aft of the cabin… behind the drummer.
If I’m talking a strange language, here’s a video of the yuloh in action. It’s a remarkable way to get a boat from point A to point B - not unlike a gondola or a Bahamian scull. A single oar that steers and propels at the same time.
A mandarin’s travelling boat.
From The costume of China, written and illustrated by William Alexander, London, 1805.
(Source: archive.org)
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