Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 169
th, to prosperity, to power. The 131 SHIPS AND WAYS OF OTHER DAYS seamanship, the navigation, and the shipbuilding inthat narrow strip of Portugal were the best whichexisted anywhere. Hence Prince Henrys pupils, even at such a late datein the worlds history, were the first to break throughall the… … Fifteenth-Century Shipbuilding Yard for two thousand miles to the southward where noother ships and sailors had been before, with the soleexception of the Phoenicians. Thus they went halfthe way to the Indian peninsula; in fact, we may add,the most important half. For when at last Vasco daGama had…
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