History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 620
olumbus calls his own ship the Christopher Nao; and M. Jal,who has at great length discussed the size of Columbuss ships on hisvoyage, states that Nao was the usual title of an admirals vessel.—Arch. Nav. ii. p. 249. 570 MERCHANT SHIPPING. with a pen by Columbus, and inclosed in his letter1 toDon… … time, have been lying in the harbour of Palos ; andher form, not unlike that of a modern Dutch galliot,is well adapted to encounter in safety the large rollingwaves of the Atlantic. 1 The letter is entitled De Insulis inventis. Epistola CristoferiColom . . . ad Magnificum dfim Eaphaelem Sanxis . .…
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