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Acknowledgments
ings of Witsen’s 134-foot pinas were redone in AutoCAD by the ever-productive Cor Emke.
As a result of this collective expertise, the English ver- sion of Witsen’s material is even better th an the Dut ch one. Many unclear passages that clogged the origin al book have been rendered in l anguage that is more com- prehensible, even to the l ay reader. Sincere thanks also go to three people from the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University for making the English edition of this book possible: Donny Hamilton, Director of the Con-
servation Research Laboratory and George T. & Gladys H. Abell Professor of Nautical Archaeology; Kevin Chrisman, Director of the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Con- servation; and especially Filipe Castro, Frederic R. Mayer Fellow II of Nautical Archaeology, without whom this book would never have existed. I also wish to thank Mary Lenn Dixon, editor-in-chief, Texas A&M University Press, for her trust in me and her decision to publish this book, the first serious attempt to make Dutch seventeenth-century ship- building available to an English-speaking audience.
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