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their ships to those ports to which the privileged galleys were consigned.[1]
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SMALL GALLEY.
How engaged, equipped, and manned. When the mercantile vessels thus engaged were completed and armed, the public crier announced throughout the streets and highways of Venice that a certain number of galeasses were ready for the annual expeditions to Egypt and other countries. This proclamation, issued under the authority of the Doge and the senate, while it allotted the vessels to the highest bidders, required that the charterers should submit to a severe examination, with the object of ascertaining whether those who offered to incur the responsibility of navigating the vessels,
- ↑ A practice somewhat similar was adopted in later times by the East India Company.
