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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: sea;[18] you know the host of sails and cordage, rigging[19] as they
call it, she requires for sailing; the quantity of engines and
machinery of all sorts she is armed with in case she should encounter
any hostile craft; the infinitude of arms she carries, with her crew
of fighting men aboard. Then all the vessels and utensils, such as
people use at home on land, required for the different messes, form a
portion of the freight; and besides all this, the hold is heavy laden
with a mass of merchandise, the cargo proper, which the master carries
with him for the sake of traffic.
[15] See Lucian, lxvi. "The Ship," ad in. (translated by S. T. Irwin).
[16] Lit. "in the tiniest receptacle."
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