HILAIRE BELLOC I17 



brought to be golde, siluer, pearles, silkes, and 

 spice, by long and painefull trade recouered. 

 Which great benefites onely by her Maiesties 

 louing clemencie and merciful fauour he doth 

 possesse : for if her highnes and her most honour- 

 able Lordes would not regard the small distance 

 betweene her dominions and those famous rich 

 Kingdomes, the easines of the passage being once 

 discoured (the North-west I mean) with the full 

 sufficience of her highnes Subiects to effect the 

 same, there could then be no doubt, but her 

 stately seate of London should bee the storehouse 

 of Europe, and a nursse to all nations, in yeelding 

 al Indian comodities in a far better condition, and 

 at a more easie rate then now brought unto vs, ex- 

 changing commodities of our owne store, with a 

 plentiful! returne at the first hand, which now by 

 many exchanges are brought vnto vs. 



John Davis, The Navigator. 



The Lateen Sail <^ <i>. ^> 



(From Eito Perpdua) 



'X'HERE is a sort of sail which may be called 

 the original of all sails. It is the sail with 

 which antiquity was familiar. It brought the sliijjs 

 to Tenedos and the Argo carried it. The Nor- 

 wegians had it when they were pirates a thousand 



