[668] Ville-Hardouin, p. 154 (ed. 1657).
[669] Jal, ii. p. 377.
[670] See, also, “The Ship: its origin and progress,” 4to, 1849, by F. Steinitz, p. 94, wherein the engravings and measurements of M. Jal are reproduced.
[671] This name occurs spelt in various different ways. It is the same as the English “Cog,” first noticed in the reign of King John (Spelman in voce). Sir H. Nicolas, “Hist. Royal Navy,” i. p. 128.
[672] Admiral W. H. Smyth describes the galliot as a small Dutch or Flemish merchant vessel.—Sailors’ Word-book, p. 332.
[673] These and the following vessels appear under various spellings, the most correct form of which it is now scarcely possible to determine. Smedley, in his excellent “Sketches of Venetian History,” i. p. 87, adopts Palander. Uissier, from Uis, a door, was a flat-bottomed vessel. Cf. also Gibbon, c. lx. A.D. 1203. For further details of the names of vessels during the Middle Ages, see the works of Mr. Steinitz, M. Jal, and of Sir H. Nicolas.
[674] Napier gives the names of most of these vessels, with some remarks on their proportions and uses.—Hist. of Florence, iv. pp. 36-38.
[675] The words Nefs and Nés occur in many of the Norman descriptions of the marine of those days. “La Blanche Nef” was the name of the ship in which Prince William, the son of Henry I., was drowned, in Nov. A.D. 1120, while crossing from Normandy to England.
[676] An Italian who, in 1758, wrote a small book on certain arts in use amongst the ancient Venetians, which was republished in 1841.
[677] A practice somewhat similar was adopted in later times by the East India Company.