The builder. Photo by Gribayedoff. "We glided... to the building-shed, where lay dozens of gondolas, side or bottom up, basking in the hot sun, their noses in the water. A huge pitch-kettle bubbled, sending up coils of thick smoke and spreading an acrid odor. Busy men, with naked breasts and legs, hammered and sang. It was the birthplace of the gondola." Source: Outing magazine, vol. LI no. 6, March, 1908, p. 648.