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Cashmere: Three Weeks in a Houseboat
Excerpt from Cashmere
There are houseboats in Cashmere which would dare to compare very favourably with the best on the Thames; also very simple houseboats, dunga houseboats and the modest dunga. A dunga is a very large decked-in punt, about 70 feet long and 6 to 8 feet wide, tapering very considerably at either end on this there is a structure of a light wooden frame covered, roof and sides, with thick reed matting. I will describe my own in detail and hope thereby to convey an idea of a dunga with its comforts and discomforts, for though dungas vary somewhat in their internal arrange ments, they are, on the whole, built on similar lines.
There are houseboats in Cashmere which would dare to compare very favourably with the best on the Thames; also very simple houseboats, dunga houseboats and the modest dunga. A dunga is a very large decked-in punt, about 70 feet long and 6 to 8 feet wide, tapering very considerably at either end on this there is a structure of a light wooden frame covered, roof and sides, with thick reed matting. I will describe my own in detail and hope thereby to convey an idea of a dunga with its comforts and discomforts, for though dungas vary somewhat in their internal arrange ments, they are, on the whole, built on similar lines.
199 pages, Paperback
First published September 27, 2015
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