I didn't know about "the dread Tin Compasses". Surely a rare item! Well, I
guess the good chart isn't quite so easy to get too (especially when you
need to know the distance between, say, Nolos and Jrustela...) And then,
hope the weather keep clear. But it's funny in a way. I can imagine the
navigator pointing on his chart and proudly say: "We are here!..." (well,
actually, somewhere in that 400-km-radius circle... notwithstanding the
errors on the chart.)
Also, "triangulation" and tin compasses would probably mostly be a Malkioni
(and maybe Kethaelan) thing, provided that the sailors don't go stricken
with fear when the captain takes measures of the Red Moon (don't the Red
Vadeli come from there?). Others would do like the Vikings who sailed in
night-less summer under a cloudy sky, or (in the east and Maslo?) like the
Polynesians.
Jerome
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