Talk:Ghali (ship)

Contemporary sources
Noting that a lot of content here is referenced by contemporary sources from the 16th and 17th centuries. I would advise against this except where it's supported by modern scholarship. Contemporary sources are often quite biased towards a European perspective and might not describe local ship design accurately. Using illustrations from that time might be particularly prone to European bias. In most of the images, it seems that the artists have simply chosen to depict the closest equivalent European design. It would require some research into the identity of the illustrators to confirm, but I'm pretty confident that they probably never got the chance to see any of these vessels. For example, the Ternate image is clearly just a Mediterranean galley, the bow spurs look suspiciously similar to those on European galleys, and only one of the illustrations depicts square sails. I think these images are probably only very rough estimations of what a ghali actually looked like. Peter Isotalo 09:38, 27 July 2022 (UTC)