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Colloquia maritima: or, Sea-dialogues. : Treating I. Of the office of commanders in chief. II. The duty of inferiour officers and mariners on board his Majesties ships of war. III. The victualling of ships. IV. A dictionary, or explanation of the names of all the parts of a ship; sea phrases, or words of art used at sea. V. Of the best ships of war, and ceremonies of entertaininment, salutes, haling, and striking. VI. The ordering of fleets in sailing, chases, boardings, and sea-fights. Useful for all that desire knowledg in sea-affairs