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<h2 id="structure-of-the-boat">Structure of the boat</h2> <p>Budgerows were large boats with long cabins that ran the length of the boat. These were divided into separate compartments by means of partitions to serve as sleeping rooms, dining rooms and sitting rooms.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> These boat had rooms for servants and the boatmen who served on the vessel. The rudder at the stern of these boats were guided by helmsmen while goleers stationed at the bow ascertained the depth of water in the river by using a long pole.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>When sailing, budgerows had a smaller baggage boat, called a <i>pulwah</i>, accompanying them carrying provisions, servants and facilities for cooking. A <a href="/facts/Dinghy/SkIGaMWD">dinghy</a> or <i>paunchway</i> was used as the means of communication between the boats and to dispatch messages to the shore as the budgerows cannot often come near the shores for absence of draft. Budgerows also had sails to drive them along in favourable weather.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> Budgerows were extremely slow and cumbersome, covering no more than 17 to 20 miles a day. They move faster when powered by sails and inclement winds required them to be towed by a crew of 16 or more men.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>Before the arrival of the <a href="/facts/Rail_transport_in_India/6AUzClgG">railways</a>, the transport of goods across much of <a href="/facts/Northern_India/tIUqMm15">Northern India</a> depended on rivers and budgerows were a common sight.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> They were owned mostly by the Indian aristocracy and by the better off Englishmen in India. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Yule, H.; Burnell, A.C. (1903). Crooke, William (ed.). Hobson-Jobson. London: John Murray. p. 120. <a href="https://archive.org/details/hobsonjobsonbein00yuleuoft/page/120/mode/1up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/hobsonjobsonbein00yuleuoft/page/120/mode/1up</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Mosque, Monghyr (Bihar). View from the river with country boats and budgerow in foreground". Archived from the original on 9 May 2024. Retrieved 13 November 2012. <a href="https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/92037/4807FA836B77ABAC7E2301FEF0B4CB6F7476F278.html" target="_blank">https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/92037/4807FA836B77ABAC7E2301FEF0B4CB6F7476F278.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Kingston, W H G. "Mark Seaworth". Retrieved 13 November 2012. <a href="http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/m/19388-mark-seaworth-by-william-henry-giles-kingston?start=24" target="_blank">http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/m/19388-mark-seaworth-by-william-henry-giles-kingston?start=24</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Kingston, W H G. "Mark Seaworth". Retrieved 13 November 2012. <a href="http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/m/19388-mark-seaworth-by-william-henry-giles-kingston?start=24" target="_blank">http://www.freefictionbooks.org/books/m/19388-mark-seaworth-by-william-henry-giles-kingston?start=24</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Hodges, William (1783). Travels in India,: during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783. London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Edwards. pp. 39, 40. budgerow boat. <a href="https://archive.org/details/travelsinindiad01hodggoog" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/travelsinindiad01hodggoog</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Brewster, David (1832). The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Volume 14. Edinburgh. p. 256. Archived from the original on 2024-05-09. Retrieved 2020-12-07. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kQ8bAQAAMAAJ&q=budgerow+boat&pg=PA256" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=kQ8bAQAAMAAJ&q=budgerow+boat&pg=PA256</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"'A Budgerow on the Ganges". Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2012. <a href="https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019wdz000000156u000130a0.html" target="_blank">https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019wdz000000156u000130a0.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>