A mid-thirteenth-century set of sailing directions already distinguished as many as sixty-four winds or directions, a division so fine that by that time the wind-rose must surely have been attached to the magnetic needle.
Kumbindi wenkulungwane yeshumi elinesithathu ulwenziwe lwendlela yokuhamba ngenqanawa lwaluselwahlule njengezininzi njengemimoya engamashumi amathandathu anesine, ulwahlulo lucacile ukuba ngelaxesha irozi yomoya mawusoloko uchanyathiselwe kwinalithi enomtsalane.