Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
Ships are expendable; the whales are not.
There can be only one Captain to a ship.
Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.
At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.