Word: sampan
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...week the Kuang Yuang, a river troopship loaded with munitions and 1,500 mercenaries lay at anchor off Kiukiang on the Yangtze. The soldiers, allegedly adherent to Sun Chuan-feng, dozed, gambled, chomped a frugal meal of rice, fired an occasional shot into the air or at a passing sampan to while away the time...
...light sampan sailed over tiny crisping wavelets of Kamakura, a stalwart bodyguard of two policemen squatted respectively at bow and stern. The Premier's secretary, deft, obsequious, baited his hook...
Without warning the sampan struck a log, overturned in half a twinkling. The policemen, both unable to swim, sank...
Premier Wakatsuki and his secretary swam. They swam down to the two policemen, swam up dragging them by the hair, kept swimming until another sampan rescued...