FIGURE PAGE A Seventeenth-century English Warship _To face title-page_ From a painting by Charles Dixon. Hay-Barge _Headpiece to Preface_ Sketch by N. S. Carr. 1. Burmese Junk 8 2. Norwegian “Jaegt” 13 3. Egyptian Ship of about 6000 B.C. 22 From an amphora found in Upper Egypt, and now in the British Museum (Painted Pottery of Predynastic Period, Case 5, No. 35324). 4. Egyptian Ship of the Fifth Dynasty 30 From wall-paintings in the Temple of Deir-el-Bahari. 5 and 6. Model of an Egyptian Ship of the Twelfth Dynasty _To face_ 34 From a tomb at Rifeh, excavated 1906-7. Photographs by courtesy of Dr. Hoyle, Director of the Manchester Museum, where the model is preserved. 7. Egyptian Ship _To face_ 40 From wall-paintings in the Temple of Deir-el-Bahari. 8. An Egyptian Nugger 43 Sketch by H. Warington Smyth; from his “Mast and Sail,” by courtesy of the author and Mr. John Murray. 9. Phœnician Ship 52 From a coin of Sidon, _c._ 450 B.C., in the British Museum. Twice the actual size. 10. Phœnician Ship 54 From a coin of Sidon, _c._ 450 B.C., in the Hunterian Collection, Glasgow. Twice the actual size. 11. Greek Ship 58 From a Bœotian fibula of the eighth century B.C., in the British Museum (First Vase Room, Case D, No. 3204). 12. Greek War Galley 59 From a vase of about 500 B.C., in the British Museum (Second Vase Room, Table-case H, No. B. 436). 13. Greek Merchantman 61 From the same vase. 14. Stern of a Greek Ship 64 From a coin of Phaselis, of about the fifth century B.C., in the British Museum (Greek and Roman Life Room, Case 1, No. 36). Twice the actual size. 15. Boar’s-head Bow of a Greek Ship 64 From the same coin. Twice the actual size. 16. The Ship of Odysseus 66 From a Greek vase, _c._ 500 B.C., in the British Museum (Third Vase Room, Case G, No. E. 440). 17. Terra-cotta Model of a Greek Ship 68 Model of the sixth century B.C., in the British Museum (Greek and Roman Life Room, Case 53, No. A. 202).