Madeira - Transporting Hammock
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Madeira - Transporting Hammock
Amongst the three best-known unusual means of transportation to have be found on the Portuguese Island of Madeira was the transporting hammock. Here, a length of cloth resembling a hammock was slung between two, long wooden poles. Two men, one at the fore and one to the back, would lift the contrivance in a mode rather akin to that of a sedan chair. The passenger reclining in the hammock, usually a woman, was thus transported in what must have been a rather uncomfortable fashion!! Date: circa 1910s
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