A.D. 

 [586. 



Chiavex 

 Piloto mayor. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



then is the Carenero bound, if it bee either by fire, water, 

 or sinking, or any other misfortune, to pay for the valew 

 of the ship. 



The Carena of a shippe of one hundred tunnes being 

 done so substantially as they use to doe it, will cost two 

 hundred Duckets, of two hundred tunnes, foure hundred 

 Duckets, of three hundred tunnes, sixe hundred Duckets, 

 and so according to the greatnesse of the shippe. 



It would be done here in England for one third part of 

 the money, by reason that the necessaries that goe to it 

 are better cheape here by much, and the calkers farre 

 better cheape by two parts. 



This Carena may not be given at any hand but in 

 a river where no tempest can arise, as in this river of 

 London in such a place, where at al times the sayd ship 

 may ride aflote : it may not be done in any dangerous 

 harbour, where the winde may bring up the waves of the 

 Sea, neither where the Sea may heave and set. 



The calking of Sivill is so substantially done, that in 

 one day one calker doeth not throughly calke past one 

 yarde and an halfe in one seame, or two yardes at the 

 most, and to that he doeth, the master calker is at hand to 

 oversee him, and this done, the Carenero doeth with his 

 ballast set her upright, and so shee beginneth to lade. 



Examen de los maestros y Pilotos, que navegan 

 en las flotas de Espanna para las Indias del 

 mar oceano, escrito por Pedro Dias Piloto, 

 natural de la Isla de la Palma, 1586. 



Rimeramente pide al Piloto mayor, que 

 es al presente Alonso de Chiavez, que lo 

 admita al examen, por quanto es natural 

 y sufficiente para ello. 



Manda el Piloto mayor, que haga 

 enformacion, de como es marinero, y 

 platico de aquella parte, de que se quiere 

 examinar. Luego presenta cinco o seis testigos de los 

 Pilotos examinados, de como es buen marinero, y suf- 



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