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Annotation: "A very funny scene of a man laughing on top of a merchant boat as the other boat demasts to..."
Created by: James Bedford
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Annotation: "A very funny scene of a man laughing on top of a merchant boat as the other boat demasts to..." |
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A very funny scene of a man laughing on top of a merchant boat as the other boat demasts to clear a low bridge. The spectacle of this (with many people on the bridge above watching) suggest to me that sea commerce was very diversified and non-standard. There were many types of boats traversing the river and certainly not from one specific company or another. Nor did competitors think it rude to laugh at each other's struggles or ineptitudes which perhaps suggests a little more disorder in the regulation of commercial activity than before Song |
