The Shi'ika - the Amsorak Boat People (shee-EE-ka, shee-OH-ka)

The Amsorak Boat People, who call themselves the Shi'ika, spend their lives on Lake Amsorak, travelling from port to port around the lake carrying supplies to all the lakeside settlements. The arrival of the Shi'oka* Boat in these small villages is welcomed as enthusiastically as The Peddler Wagons in the villages of plains of Darokin, and serves much the same purpose.
Like the peddlers, they transport basic foodstuffs like flour, sugar, salt, dried herbs and spices, rice, oats, dried fruit, dried meat and sweetmeats, along with cloth, hides, leather, thread, pins and needles, pots and pans, knives, scissors, awls, saws, hammers, spades, forks and other tools, nails, cutlery, paper, parchment, writing implements and various inks along with sand for drying the ink and wax for sealing.
They also have whatever fresh foodstuffs they were able to pick up at the previous settlements they visiting - maybe turnips, carrots, blueberries, fish, crabs, shrimp, lettuce, apples, cherries, pears - the selection varies widely from settlement to settlement and from season to season.
As well as the goods, they also provide services - they all have a sharpening wheel for knives, scissors, axes and so on, plus mending facilities for pots and pans.
Strangely for traders they refuse to carry or sell alcoholic drinks, despite the high markup they would be able to command. However they are renowned for their freshly squeezed juices which they can prepare on the spot: apple, pear, lime, lemon, cherry, even carrot, onion, parsnip, and the fruiting pods of various lake plants.
They also refuse to carry or sell weapons, although they all have sturdy staffs which they can use to defend themselves and repel boarders.
Although they mostly travel independently, they all gather together at Shinolkan on Razak's Rock for the midwinter and midsummer solstices and the spring and autumn equinoxes for several days of partying and to celebrate significant birthdays and marriages, taking the chance to catch up with friends and family and reaffirm the bonds of the Boat People.
They also have a permanent settlement Brethald on the north shore of the lake in the borderland region of Brethald, where those Shi'ika who specialise in boatbuilding assemble new boats and repair existing ones, using the timber from the forests which surround them.
* Note: Shi'ika is plural and refers to the people collectively or to a group. Shi'oka is the singular form.