15. _Navigation_.

An intensely puzzling one; coarse (perhaps unfinished) in work, and done

by a man who could not row; the plaited bands used for rowlocks being

pulled the wrong way. Right, had the rowers been rowing Englishwise:

but the water at the boat's head shows its motion forwards, the way the

oarsmen look. I cannot make out the action of the figure at the stern;

it ought to be steering with the stern oar.

The water seems quite unfinished. Meant, I suppose, for surface and

section of sea, with slimy rock at the bottom; but all stupid and

inefficient.

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