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Museum. In 'The Black Pynnes^ Sidney's body 

 was carried from Flushing to Tower Hill, where it 

 was landed on November 5th, 1585. The vessel is 

 represented with * her fights made close,' that is, 

 with waistcloths rigged up to prevent boarding, and 

 nettings drawn over the waist to intercept dropping 

 missiles. The term ' pinnace ' is indefinite : some- 

 times it is used to describe the largest of the ships' 

 boats (in this sense it is used in the British navy 

 at the present day), and we read of the pinnaces 

 being carried in pieces in the great ships' holds and 

 put together as occasion required ; more frequently, 

 however, it refers to * vessels varying from eighty to 

 fifteen tons, and setting aside certain special func- 

 tions in general actions, and landing operations, 

 they were to the capital ships exactly what the 

 frigate was to the ship of the line ' (Corbett, 

 op. cit., I. 35). 



Map of the Moluccas, . . . . .458 



This m.ap, * Imprinted at London by John Wolfe, graven 

 by Robert Beckit,' is reproduced from the copy in 

 the British Museum of John Huighen van Linschoten 

 hts Discours of Voyages unto ye Easte and Weste Indies^ 

 London J 1598. 



Along the lower edge of the map are shown some 



of the products from which the * Islands of Spicerie ' 



took their name : red, white, and yellow sandalwood, 



* arbor cariophilorum ' or cloves, and *nux myristica' 



' or nutmeg, * with its flower, commonly called mace.' 



