Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 216
were really necessaryfor stretching the sails so that they set a fiat surfacewithout too much belly. The Pinta was apparently allright when running before the wind, but not much goodclosehauled, owing to the fact that the mizzen-mast couldnot endure the strain. And similarly with reference tothe… … THE EARLY TUDOR PERIOD . MAKE no apology to thereader for having taken upso much of his time in a con-sideration of the methods; which obtained during thetime of Christopher Colum-bus, not merely because byhis splendid seamanship andnavigation a new world wasrevealed to the old, but be-cause of the…
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