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water transport: cargo vessel: clipper
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A trading junk at sea (Painting)
The 'coolie' ship 'Mersey' in a gale (Painting)
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Two Chinese sampans of different sizes (Drawing)
Two covered sampans, one smaller than the other (Drawing)
Chinese junk, single sail and oars, with a small sampan in the foreground (Drawing)
Sampan adapted for housing ducks (Drawing)
Chinese houseboat with a sampan in foreground (Drawing)
Two sampans, one carrying plants in fancy pots (Drawing)
Chinese junk, two masts and a covered deck, brightly painted (Drawing)
13 Factories in Canton (Miniature)
river boat (Drawing)
Chinese junk with a single mast and sail (Drawing)
Duck boat (Drawing)
Chinese sampan carrying a cargo of fruit and vegetables (Drawing)
Chinese junk, with ornate deck house and rowed from the bow (Drawing)
Sea-going ship (Drawing)
rice boat (Drawing)
Chinese fishing sampan, water compartments on board to store the fish and a net on supports on one side of the vessel (Drawing)
Chinese junk, with ornate deck house and masts attached to the roof (Drawing)
Chinese fishing sampan, with a net at the bow and alongside, with water compartment in centre of the vessel (Drawing)
Common salt junk (Drawing)
Chinese junk, with lugsails and awning over the bow (Drawing)
Shipping off Canton (Painting)
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