 | John Henry Grose - India - 1766 - 496 pages
...peculiar to that coaft. The grabs have generally two mafts ; though fome have three. Thofe of three mails are about 300 tons burthen ; but the others are not more than i50. They arc built to draw little water, being very broad in proportion to their length ; but narrowing... | |
 | John Henry Grose - English imprints - 1772 - 498 pages
...peculiar to that coaft. The grabs have generally two mafts ; though fome have three. Thofe of three mafts are about 300 tons burthen ; but the others are not more than 1 50. They are built to draw little water, being very broad in proportion to their length ; but narrowing... | |
 | Robert Beatson - Great Britain - 1790 - 622 pages
...tons burden, but the others not more than one hundred and fifty. They are fo conftru&ed as to draw little water, being very broad in proportion to their length, narrowing however from the middle to each end. Inftead of bows, they have a prow projecting like a Mediterranean galley, and covered with... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1916 - 688 pages
...of India, described the grab as having ' rarely more than two masts, though some have three ; those of three are about 300 tons burthen ; but the others...length, narrowing, however, from the middle to the end, while instead of bows they have a prow, projecting like that of a Mediterranean galley.' It appears... | |
 | Sir Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell - English language - 1903 - 1088 pages
...(¿rose, i. 81. 1763. — " The grabs have rarely more than two masts, though some have three ; those of three are about 300 tons burthen ; but the others...water, being very broad in proportion to their length, narrqwing, however, from the middle to the end, where instead of bows they have a prow, projecting... | |
 | Sir Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell - English language - 1903 - 1536 pages
...masts, though some have three ; those of three are about 300 tons burthen ; but the others are not moro than 150: they are built to draw very little water,...narrowing, however, from the middle to the end, where instead of bows they have a prow, projecting like that of a Mediterranean galley." — Urnif (reprint),... | |
 | William Herbert Coates - Commerce - 1911 - 252 pages
...builders greatly affected. He says — ' Those of three masts were of 300 tons, ' those of two masts about 150. They are built to ' draw very little water, being...length, narrowing however from the middle ' to the bows where they have a prow, projecting like ' that of a Mediterranean Galley, and covered with ' a... | |
 | Kŗishṇāji Ananta Sabhāsada, Surendra Nath Sen - Maratha (Indic people) - 1920 - 302 pages
...(and) uniting ships 1 - " The gurabs have rarely more than two masts, although some have three ; those of three, are about 300 tons burthen ; but the others...built to draw very little water, being very broad iu proportion to their length, narrowing however fiom the middle to the end, where instead of bows... | |
 | Kr̥shṇājī Ananta Sabhāsada - Maratha (Indic people) - 1920 - 292 pages
...(and) uniting ships '-" The gurabs have rarely more than two masts, although some have three ; those of three, are about 300 tons burthen ; but the others...: they are built to draw very little water, being vory broad in proportion to their length, nun-owing however from the middle to the end, where instead... | |
 | Alexander Kyd Nairne - History - 1988 - 158 pages
...Malabar coast. The grabs have rarely more than two masts, although some have three ; those of three ave about 300 tons burthen, but the others are not more...narrowing however from the middle to the end, where instead of bows they have a prow, projecting like that of a Mediterranean galley, and covered with... | |
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The grabs have rarely more than two masts, although some have three ; those of three are about 300 tons burthen, but the others are not more than 150. They are built to draw very little water, being very broad in proportion to their length, narrowing... 
