Parts of a Ship Their Names. 47 



Blackboard Drawing-. Names of sails, etc.: A, flying-gib; B, 

 jib; C, foretop-mast-stay sail; D, fore top-gallant sail; E, 

 foretop sail; F, fore-course; Q, maintop-gallant sail; H, 

 maintop sail; I, main-course ; J, mizzen -spanker. 



K, hull or body; L, keel; M, bow; N, i udder; O, bowsprit; P, 

 jib-boom; Q, martingale; B, life-boat; S, buoy. 



a, Foreroyal stay; c, foretop-gallant stay ; d, foretop-mast stay; 

 e, maintop-gallant stay; f, maintop-mast stay ; h, main stay; 

 i, fore top -gallant mast ; j, maintop-gallant mast ; k, mizzen- 

 top mast. 



8. Here is a ship (pointing to one on the 

 chart). See with what ease she moves upon 

 her way, her swelling sails urging her onward 

 with the favoring breeze. What wonderful 

 progress men have made from the time when 

 the rude savage straddled his log and floated 

 first along the shore ! 



9. Almost as primitive is the large earthen jar used 

 by the fisherman at the mouth of the Ganges River. He 



