. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. s, and the huissier, the name of which was derived from a huts, or largedoor, which opened in its side in front of the poop to allow of the embarkationof horses, were contemporaneous with the pamphile and with the selandre; asalso was the chat or chatte, which William of Tyre mentions in connectionwith a maritime war which took place in 1121. According to him it was aram-armed vessel larger than a galley, and carried a hundred oars, each ofwhich was handled by two men. Besides all these there were the bucent
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. s, and the huissier, the name of which was derived from a huts, or largedoor, which opened in its side in front of the poop to allow of the embarkationof horses, were contemporaneous with the pamphile and with the selandre; asalso was the chat or chatte, which William of Tyre mentions in connectionwith a maritime war which took place in 1121. According to him it was aram-armed vessel larger than a galley, and carried a hundred oars, each ofwhich was handled by two men. Besides all these there were the bucentaures (Fig. 71), large Venetiangalleys, and the sagettes, or sdities (arrows), whose names denote their slendershape and speed, and which, with their twelve or fifteen oars on each side, NAVAL MATTERS. 77 played the same part in the twelfth century as the baliner, or barineal, andthe brigantin played from the fourteenth to the seventeenth. There were two sorts of vessels used in the fifteenth and the sixteenthcenturies also belonging to the numerous and varied family of the galley-. Fig. 70.—Turreted Vessel -which, protected the Port of Venice.—From, a Medal struck inhonour of the Doge P. Candiano I., who died in 887 (Venetian Museum). the fuste and the frigate, both smaller examples of the galeasse. A galleywas termed galeasse (Fig. 72) when it was of large size, powerfully armed,and propelled by such long and heavy oars that it took six or seven men towork one of them.
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