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*[https://www.livehistoryindia.com/snapshort-histories/2018/12/12/dak-banglas-their-dark-tales "Dak Banglas & Their Dark Tales"] by Aditi Shah December 12th 2018. ''Live History India.'' "The word ‘dak’ is Urdu for 'post' and dak banglas were initially built by the British Indian Public World Department to help postal officers relay the mail in stages."
==Inflated animal skins==
*The Khatnaoo, an inflatable bullock skin used for water travel (may also be called a Dareyi)<ref>Shiraz, Richard [https://web.archive.org/web/20150524041936/https://in.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/apnahimachal/conversations/messages/1159 kundan from harsi] Apna Himachal Yahoo group July 14, 2005, now archived. Retrieved 24 May 2015</ref>. Also known as a mussuck or mussak.**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=R6mLH_rImHYC&lpg=PT73&ots=i-ES_iUDX0&dq=mussak%20mussuck&pg=PT73 Description of a raft made from a charpoy bed-frame fastened over two mussaks] by Harry Lumsden of the Guides, probably c late 1840s, quoted in ''Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier'' by Charles Allen Google Books, Also available page 101 [https://archive.org/details/soldiersahibsmen0000alle/page/101/mode/2up Archive.org/Books to Borrow/Lending Library version].
**C 1857 Illustration: [https://archive.org/stream/cavalryexperien00ouvrgoog#page/n153/mode/2up page 125] ''Cavalry Experiences and Leaves from My Journal'' by Colonel H A Ouvry 1892 Archive.org
**[http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/202213/samuel-bourne-mussucks-for-crossing-the-beas-below-bajoura-english-1866/ Photograph: Mussucks for Crossing the Beas below Bajoura 1866] (North West India), by Samuel Bourne. From an album of photographs. J. Paul Getty Museum.
