History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 343
whom Homer also writes, says, Nor hadthey, as yet, covered ships;1 and we find in the Iliad such expressions as, He marched upon thehatches with long strides;2 and in the Odyssey,where Ulysses is preparing to encounter Scylla, upon the hatches of the prow of the ship he went.3Mr. Howell, in… … 294 MERCHANT SHIPPING. as meaning the thwarts or seats upon which therowers sat:1 but it is obvious that no other con-struction can be put upon the word except that itmeant the hatches of the hold, which, being slightlyelevated above the level of the deck, wTould be amuch more likely place for the…
Commerce · Ships and shipping · Merchant marine
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