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Ancient Sails. 
In regard to the matter you write of, there is, 
insofar as I have been able to see, only very 
scant information extant, and this only of a very 
patchy and detached character. I could doubt- 
less hunt up some items knowledge from 
data in my possession, but nothing I fear that 
would be satisfactory to myself, or that would 
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often wondered that some one with a taste and 
enthusiasm for the work, and whom perhaps 
time, money and opportunity might favor would 
not go thoroughly into the investigation of this 
matter and see what could be made of it. When 
in Egypt in 1905, I saw in the library of the 
museum at Cairo accounts of voyages made by 
the early rulers of Egypt, and representations 
of the vessels used by them, and these were 
fitted with masts and sails, to be used, no 
doubt, when serviceable, though at other times 
propelled by oars. History and preserved relics 
show that sails were used on vessels at an early 
period, not only on the Mediterranean, but 
about the shores of northern Europe. The 
Viking ship, disinterred on the shore of Norway 
nearly thirty years since and supposed to have 
been built 1,000 years ago or more, had been 
propelled by both oars and sail. Oars as well 
as sails were largely depended upon in the 
vessels of old times, and commonly neither the 
forms of the vessels nor the kind of sails used 
were adapted for windward work. It would 
be interesting to learn when lateen sails first 
came into use on the Mediterranean, and also 
as to what can be learned relative to the early 
use of sails. in eastern waters, say of China, 
Japan, or India. It might be hopeless to learn 
much from the islanders of the Pacific as to the 
early use of sails for propelling their canoes and 
catamarans, as this use probably extends beyond 
the reach of reliable tradition, and has not been 
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