Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1Chapman & Hall, 1900 - 164 pàgines |
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Pàgina 53 - WestSaxons, chiefly on the south coast, by predatory bands; most of all by their " esks," 3 which they had built many years before. Then king Alfred commanded long ships to be built to oppose the "esks;" they were full-nigh twice as long as the others; some had sixty oars, and some had more; they were both swifter and steadier, and also higher than the others. They were shapen neither like the Frisian nor the Danish, but so as it seemed to him they would be most efficient.
Pàgina 15 - Negroes. This is related by Una in the following words : — ' His Holiness sent me to cut down four forests in the South, in order to build three large vessels and four towing vessels out of the acacia wood in the country of Wawa-t. And behold the officials of Araret, Aam, and Mata, caused the wood to be cut down for this purpose. I executed all this in the space of a year. As soon as the waters rose, I loaded the rafts with immense pieces of granite for the pyramid Kha-nofer of the king Mer-en-ra.
Pàgina 85 - Many other expeditions in the same direction were fitted out in the last years of the fifteenth and the first years of the sixteenth centuries.
Pàgina 154 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and in the early part of the eighteenth centuries the tonnage of warships was commonly computed in the following manner.
Pàgina 44 - ... difficult to believe that the germ plasm is thus affected materially when conception takes place under such unfavorable conditions. This may also explain the accidental occurrence of defective children in families where the other children are normal, and no other causes can be found for these accidents. If we look at the matter from another point of view, we find that the progeny of habitual drinkers, suffers materially from the effects of alcoholism in the parents. Kraepelin quotes from the...
Pàgina 65 - Eastern gems, as saphires, emeralds, and carbuncles ; from Asia was brought the rich silks and purples ; from Africa the cinnamon and balm ; from Spain the kingdom was enriched with gold ; with silver from Germany ; from Flanders came the rich materials for the garments of the people ; while plentiful streams of wine flowed from their own province of Gascoigny ; joined with everything that was rich and pretious from every land, wide stretching from the Hyades to the Arcturian Star.
Pàgina 17 - ... and I had ships of burthen built to bring back products of all kinds. And I offered a great sacrifice of oxen, cows, and goats. And when I returned from Seba (?), I had executed the king's command, for I brought him back all kinds of products which I had met with in the ports of the Holy Land. And I came back by the road of Uak and Rohan, and brought with me precious stones for the statues of the temples. But such a thing never happened since there were kings ; nor was the like of it ever done...
Pàgina 19 - Laden was the cargo to the uttermost with all the wonderful products of the land of Punt, and with the different nut-woods of the divine land, and with heaps of the resin of incense, with fresh incense trees, with ebony...
Pàgina 23 - ... sheet, bite through these, but through the net they do not even attempt to bite. Their boats with which they carry cargoes are made of the thorny acacia, of which the form is very like that of the Kyrenian lotos, and that which exudes from it is gum. From this tree they cut pieces of wood about two cubits in length and arrange them like bricks, fastening the boat together by running a great number of long bolts through the two-cubit pieces; and when they have thus fastened the boat together,...
Pàgina 147 - ... larger American ships, and were, naturally, no match for them in sailing powers. The Cairngorm, built by the same firm, was the first vessel which equalled the Americans in speed, and, being of a stronger build, delivered her cargo in better condition, and consequently was preferred. In 1856 the Lord of the Isles, built by Messrs. Scott, of Greenock, beat two of the fastest American clippers in a race to this country from China, and from that time forward British merchant vessels gradually regained...