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PRESENT GONDOLA.
The Tarida. republics, especially the Genoese, possessed merchant galleys, which were named Taridas, and were chiefly employed in the trade between the Levant and Constantinople. Marino Torsello recommended the use of the Tarida, which had been previously known under the name of Galata, to Pope John XXII. towards the commencement of the fourteenth century.
The Zelander.
The Huissier.
During the tenth century the Zelander, or Galander,[1]
figures with the Dromond and the Pamphyle;
but three centuries afterwards these vessels
had discontinued the use of oars and had become
sailing vessels under a somewhat similar name. The
accounts which have been preserved of the Zelander
describe her as a vessel of extraordinary length and
great swiftness, having two banks of oars, and a
crew of one hundred and fifty men. Contemporary
with the Zelander we have the Huissier, a vessel of
- ↑ These and the following vessels appear under various spellings, the most correct form of which it is now scarcely possible to determine. Smedley, in his excellent "Sketches of Venetian History," i. p. 87, adopts Palander. Uissier, from Uis, a door, was a flat-bottomed vessel. Cf. also Gibbon, c. lx. A.D. 1203. For further details of the names of vessels during the Middle Ages, see the works of Mr. Steinitz, M. Jal, and of Sir H. Nicolas.
