. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. y means exhausted the number of long vessels pro-pelled by oars, but we will now turn to those which only used sails, andwhich were termed nefs, or round vessels. In the tenth century the Venetians employed these large heavy vessels,which they had adopted from the Saracens, and which were termed cumbaries(from the Latin cymba), or gombaries. To the same class belonged the coque 7* NAVAL MATTERS. (Fig. 73), which, according to an old chronicler, had a round stem and stern,a high freeboard, and drew very littl
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. y means exhausted the number of long vessels pro-pelled by oars, but we will now turn to those which only used sails, andwhich were termed nefs, or round vessels. In the tenth century the Venetians employed these large heavy vessels,which they had adopted from the Saracens, and which were termed cumbaries(from the Latin cymba), or gombaries. To the same class belonged the coque 7* NAVAL MATTERS. (Fig. 73), which, according to an old chronicler, had a round stem and stern,a high freeboard, and drew very little water. This style of vessel, whichfrom its shape was considered insubmersable, was largely used both for war-like and commercial purposes, from the twelfth to the close of the fifteenthcentury. The coque, so frequently employed in the Middle Ages, doubtlesssuggested the construction of another large vessel of the same sort, calledby the Venetians buzo, by the Genoese panzono, and busse by the Provencaux,three words having a similar signification* These various names plainly nidi-. Fig. 72.—Sketch of a Galley of the Sixteenth Century, painted in distemper on the door of acupboard preserved in the Doria Palace, Genoa. cate the character of this kind of vessel, namely, that it was a broad-beamed,slow-sailing craft, but one capable of carrying large and heavy cargoes. Such names, however, as gombaries, coqices, and busses, are nowadays ascompletely forgotten as the ships to which they were applied, while suchterms as carraque and galliot still convey a meaning understood by , they immediately call up in the mind the memory of the numerousSpanish galleons which, according to popular tradition, were constantlyreturning home laden with Peruvian gold, and of those gigantic carackswhich, hailing from the French ports on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Large-sided. NAVAL MATTERS. 79 invested the navy of France, in the reigns of Louis XII. and Francis I.,with such
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