The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c20.28

c20.28

It seems that there was one defect in the purely native system of making a boat-bridge. They did not make use of grapnels. Instead of these, they followed the tedious mode of driving stakes into the river bed. The result was a bridge less secure; and what might have been ready in one day took eight or ten days to complete (Remarks by Major R. E. Roberts, “Asiatic Miscell.” i, 419).