ABSTRACT
THERE is also another kind of tournament, on the water, presented to view as a public spectacle. In this, sailors armed with shields and lances stand in the stern of boats and are very rapidly propelled to a clash by comrades at the oars. Both however are held by a slack rope tied to their waists, so that, should they fall overboard, they can be pulled out of the water and not drown there and then. If they fall simultaneously from the stern of each boat, they take up their positions again and contend even more stubbornly for the victory they were originally resolved upon.1
