of Lepanto. It is a confused mass of charging galleys pro-pelled by serried banks of oars. These terrible oars were oftensixty feet long and manned by four or five men. We wonder howthese vessels were controlled and what happened when a miser-able oarsman missed his short, jerky stroke or fell at… … By the Sea 103 high castles fore and aft, their bellying sails and flaunting ban-ners and their more or less open hulls should have made them aneasy prey to the hungry rocks and the tempests of the North Sea.But how did Sir Francis Drake bring home safe his almost equallyclumsy ships, and how did…
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