The Elizabethan seaman scorned the use of charts, or sheepskins as he called them, and would ask the foreign pilot 'shooting' the sun whether he had yet struck it! But soon the English too were crossing the oceans and methods more sophisticated than rule of thumb became necessary.
Amadoda aselwandle kaElizabethan agxeka usetyenziso lwetshati, okanye ingubo zegusha njengeziba njalo zona, kwaye uye wabuza ngabaphambuki babaqhubi nqwelo moya 'dubula' ilanga noba uye walistrayika kodwa mafutshane amaNgilane ayenqumleza ulwandlekazi.