 | Delphian Society - 1911 - 576 pàgines
...Ropes were attached to the sweeps to pull by, as the timber itself was too bulky to grasp. partments or severances in the interior, made with planking...running on a rock or by the blow of a hungry whale. In such case the water that enters the leak flows to the bilge, which is always kept clear; and the... | |
 | 1912 - 354 pàgines
...masts; and sometimes they have two additional masts, which they ship and unship at pleasure. . . . "The larger of their vessels have some thirteen compartments...strongly framed, in case mayhap the ship should spring aleak. . . "The fastenings are all of good iron nails and the sides are double, one plank laid over... | |
 | 1924 - 604 pàgines
...sixty cabins "wherein the merchants abide greatly at their ease, every man having one to himself.... Moreover the larger of their vessels have some thirteen...framed in case mayhap the ship should spring a leak . . . "' When, a little more than a century later, the famous eunuch-admiral Cheng Ho went through... | |
| |
... They have but one deck, though each of them contains some 50 or 60 cabins, wherein the merchants abide greatly at their ease, every man having one to himself. The ship hath but one rudder, but it hath four masts ; and sometimes they have two additional... 