You can hire a boatman to take you in a sort of gondola to the morning market.
The canal is already buzzing with activity; boatmen have begun their long day.
In mythology, Charon was the boatman of the River Styx.
In it, the boatman sings to the river as someone singing to a maiden.
A backswimmer, a water measurer, a water boatman and a predaceous diving beetle were used as larval predators, and a pholcid spider as adult predator.
For this reason, exchangees often left stealthily at night, after making prior arrangements with fixers, boatmen and border guards who demanded much money.
The gentle song of the boatman in the poem of that title reveals pidgin's poetic resourcefulness through its sheer lyricism and beauty of form.
According to colonial investigators, civilian support derived primarily from the most destitute inhabitants of the province: petty criminals, river boatmen and day-laborers.