beer buddy

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Every ship in the roadstead [of Batavia] was served by its own selected Chinese prahu, the so-called biermaat or ‘beer buddy’, which brought provisions and transported passengers and crews between ship and shore. Cited from: Source: https://www.zotero.org/groups/4678659 /items/6CCCXTCQ Reference: Leonard Blussé, ‘On the Waterfront: Life and Labour Around the Batavian Roadstead’ in: Masashi Haneda (Ed.), Asian Port Cities, 1600-1800: Local and Foreign Cultural Interactions (Singapore 2009) 119-138, there 126. Classified by: definition

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