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Ships & ways of other days (1913)

Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 218

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this. Now also Charles V notonly established a Pilot Major for the examinationof those who sought to take ships to the West Indies,but also founded a lecture on the art of navigationwhich was given in the Contractation House at Seville.Those anxious to qualify as pilots had to learnthoroughly the… … Sixteenth-Century Caravel at Anchor. After the Woodcut of Hansen Burgmair. )). 170 THE EARLY TUDOR PERIOD it more than repaid them many times over when theywere able to bring back such valuable commodities.Furthermore, as experience gains knowledge, so everyvoyage taught them something of their art…

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