Note 707 — Chapter XV

Napier considers the “Fuste” to have been “a lighter species of war-galley,” iv. p. 24. M. Jal gives elaborate details on the subject of the names of mediæval ships, in which he differs very much from writers who have gone before him. He, however, invariably gives the authorities on whom he relies, which other writers have too frequently omitted (see “Arch. Nav.” ii. p. 3, &c.).