SAILING CRAFT 65 



2 hogheds of botls marckt SR, 70 bunches of 

 arthen waire pots, 8 barels of beaire, 19 caskes 

 of schotte.' Her return cargo included ' 14 

 barels of brandy, 4 hogsds of Claret, 2 bondles 

 of syle skins, etc.* She was wrecked before 

 she reached home, but most of her cargo was 

 saved. Her owner, Samuel Vetch, the son of 

 a * Godly Minister and Glorifier of God in the 

 Grass Market ' in Edinburgh, was a great local 

 character in New York. Four years after this 

 voyage he v/as sent to Quebec to arrange a truce 

 between New France and New England. But 

 his return was as unlucky as that of his sloop 

 Mary, for he was arrested and fined 200 on a 

 charge of having traded with his own country's 

 official enemies. 



The fashion in ships changed very slowly. 

 As we have seen, what may be called the 

 ancient period of sailing ships closed about 

 the time Jacques Cartier appeared in Canada. 

 When the fore-and-aft-trimmed sails were in- 

 vented in 1539, the modern age began. This 

 has three distinctive eras of its own. The first 

 lasted for about a century after the time of 

 Jacques Cartier ; and its chief work was to free 

 itself of ancient and mediaeval limitations. 

 The second, or central, modern era lasted twice 



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