...craft rigged with three masts, on each a lateen, but some of the craft have their foremast rigged entirely with a couple of square-sails, the two other masts having each a lateen. In the nineteenth century sometimes the lateener, not content with carrying a jib and bowsprit, added to herself also a square topsail and a lateen mizzen. Even when the southern ship had so forgotten her national characteristics as to rig herself after the 36 ORIGIN OF THE FORE-AND-AFT RIG manner of a northern brigantine, yet she would sometimes retain the loftily peaked yard and sail of the lateen on the mizzen. Another characteristic to be noted is tluit whereas the lateen of the Orient tends to become practically a rectangular shape, the Spanish fishing craft retain tlieir strictly triangular form. But it is the Portuguese moletta or muletta which, though a lateener by descent and nationality, does her very best to disguise herself from any other vessel afloat in any part of the world. Looked at for the...